Chung Sang-Hwa

Lévy Gorvy is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by renowned Korean artist Chung Sang-Hwa (b. 1932). Featuring seven recent white monochrome paintings by the artist, this presentation represents the first solo exhibition of Chung’s work in London.

The works included in Seven Paintings demonstrate Chung’s career-long engagement with repetition, ritual, and process, highlighting the infinite complexity and nuance possible with the white monochrome format. Eliminating decisions of scale (each canvas is 130 x 97 cm) and color, Chung foregrounds his meditative painting method in this suite of subtly evocative paintings that present intricate variations in surface and texture.

Notable presentations of Chung’s work in recent years include the solo exhibition Painting Archeology at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne in 2011, and Dansaekhwa at the Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice in 2015, as well as a 2016 exhibition at our New York location.