Robilant+Voena’s exhibition offers an unparalleled journey through the history of European, particularly Italian, art. Organised in collaboration with The Hyundai Seoul, a luxury department store with a museum-style exhibition space that has previously held exhibitions with the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Archaeological Museum of Naples, this is the first exhibition of its kind to be organised by a European gallery in South Korea.
The selection of exceptional works spans eight centuries, highlighting the key artistic movements which revolutionised artistic practice in Italy, arguably the birthplace of Western art, and subsequently shaped the practice of artists from across Europe. The exhibition is particularly notable given that many of the artists – from Old Masters to artists working of the present – are rarely exhibited in South-East Asia.
The Hyundai, which opened in 2022, is the largest shopping centre in Seoul, part of a major urban development by the architectural firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), designed by the late architect Richard Rogers.
From fourteenth-century gold grounds, to the revolution of oil paints in the sixteenth century; from the Baroque of the seventeenth century, to the vedutisti of the eighteenth century; from nineteenth-century portraiture and genre scenes to the dawn of Impressionism; from the groundbreaking developments the twentieth century and the post-War Italian pioneers, to the rise of conceptual art; culminating in the present day with a selection of contemporary artists whose unique styles reflect the ever-growing global artistic conversation.
Artists represented are: Dirck Jaspersz van Baburen, Jacopo Bassano, William Beechey, Louis-Gabriel Blanchet, Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Abraham Brueghel, Alberto Burri, Vincenzo Cabianca, Bonino da Campione, Antonio Canale, called Canaletto, Enrico Castellani, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Marc Chagall, Viviano Codazzi, Virgilio Costantini, Guillaume Courtois, Edgar Degas, Elger Esser, Familiare del Boccati Lavinia Fontana, Lucio Fontana, Ubaldo Gandolfini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Gilbert & George, Francesco Granacci, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Francesco Hayez, Damien Hirst, Fabrice Hyber, Antonio Joli, Jim Lambie, Martino Piazza da Lodi, Pietro Longhi, Alessandro Magnasco, Michele Marieschi, Marino Marini, Master of San Jacopo a Mucciana, Master of Sant’Ivo, Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, Joan Miró, Giuseppe Molteni, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Giulio Paolini, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Alvaro Pirez d’Évora, Nicolas Poussin, Domenico Puligo, Mimmo Rotella, Paolo Scheggi, Rudolf Stingel, Michael Sweerts, Keith Tyson, Andrea Vaccaro, Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina.
Press release courtesy Robilant+Voena.
