From May 30 to August 15, 2017, the Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA) will present

the exhibition Highlights, featuring works from the Collection of the Fondation

Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. As the first exhibition of the Collection

of the Fondation Cartier in its 2017 Asian tour, it provides the Korean audience

with an opportunity to discover world-renowned works from this Collection. As

the title indicates, Highlights not only refers to the most representative artworks

from the Collection of the Fondation Cartier that will be on display, but also

implies our wish to share the heightened, shining value of art, which represents

various crucial subjects that we need to pay attention to through visual and verbal

languages.

For the exhibition Highlights, SeMA and the Fondation Cartier selected

100 representative works among 1,500 artworks in the Collection of the

Fondation Cartier, including the works of Sarah Sze, Ron Mueck, and Moebius.

Based on common interests beyond national and gender differences, these works

are significant for their multidisciplinary approaches to diverse social phenomena,

which we expect to be easily shared with the Korean audience. The exhibition

Highlights offers the opportunity to discover a series of works subliming diverse

subjects into artworks. The work Hear Them Speak by French artists Raymond

Depardon and Claudine Nougaret recorded languages and dialects in danger of

extinction, representing the subject in the form of a beautiful film. Diller Scofidio

+ Renfro’s EXIT installation is a 360° visualization of human migrations and causes

based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio. A series of

drawings by David Lynch reveals another aspect of the film director as a visual

artist.

With this exhibition, SeMA and the Fondation Cartier also wish to build a long-

term partnership, grounded in the potential of contemporary Asian art. The first

Korean artist to having hold a solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in 2007,

Lee Bul will reveal her work Heaven and Earth to the Korean audience.

This exhibition will also actively introduce extraordinary commissions by

emerging artists, who have not had opportunities in mainstream art scenes.

For this particular show, the Fondation Cartier fully supported the artists’ duo

PARKing CHANce formed by the film director Park Chan-wook and artist Park

Chan-kyong, so that the brothers could create a new project entitled Decades

Apart. The Fondation Cartier also commissioned the webtoon work The Flat is

Political from artist Sunwoo Hoon, which is one of the most popular and advanced

genres of contemporary art in Korea.

SeMA hopes this exhibition will remain a pioneering and successful example

for institutional collaboration.