Rather than focusing on the practical function of folding screens, this exhibition explores their distinctive composition of interconnected panels and the expressive language of Korean painting. Through their ability to fold and unfold, folding screens can extend a single image across a broad surface or present independent scenes and symbolic motifs on each individual panel, highlighting their inherently pictorial qualities.
The exhibition features five folding screens from the ARARIO Collection, including Juk by the late Joseon literati painter Yu Deok-jang, Kim Hui-sun’s Ten Panel Folding Screen of Flowers and Birds, Kim Eun-ho’s Noando, Park Saeng-gwang’s Ten Panel Folding Screen of Flowers and Birds and Animals, and Park No-soo’s Unryongdo.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to see how familiar subjects in traditional Korean painting, including bamboo, flowers, birds, geese, and dragons, were transformed into distinct visual languages by different artists and across different periods.