Gyeongnam Provincial Museum of Art

Gyeongnam Art Museum aims to provide visitors with an opportunity to access art as a more general and friendly object through exhibitions, education, and archives based on the museum collection research. In particular, the New Acquisitions exhibition plays a significant role in strengthening the museum's foundation and suggesting visitors of the museum's collection policy, direction, and achievements by presenting the museum's principal function, collecting artwork, and researching achievement through the exhibition.

The exhibition "New Acquisitions 2017-2020: Connected Worlds" is the first new acquisitions exhibition held in four years since 2017. It is a curated exhibition of newly collected works from 2017 to 2020 at Gyeongnam Art Museum. Over the past four years, the museum has collected a total of 79 artworks. Among them, 69 pieces were purchased through public competitions, and ten pieces were donated. By genre, western paintings were collected the most with 50 artworks, followed by sculpture (11 pieces), Korean painting (6 pieces), video (5 pieces), photography (5 pieces), and engraving (2 pieces).

This time, the new acquisitions exhibition presents about 60 artworks selected according to the exhibition's theme among the above works. First, the exhibition is organized to be read in the context of contemporary art and to raise the closeness and concentration of the space; it is designed the comprehensive perspective by dividing parts under the theme of nature, human, and society in each exhibition room. All beings in the world operate together organically, accumulating and changing. For example, let's think of an individual's life as being contacted with the natural and social environment in a very multi-layered context. The "Connected Worlds" implies all these series of flows and cycles. Here, the world means a particular society or territory with a specific scope, and it can also mean the art world of one person or artist.

As the exhibition features the artworks produced over 60 years from 1951 to 2019, there created situations that cross many eras and themes in one exhibition hall. Artworks of a particular time contain the spirit and traces of the time. I hope the exhibition will provide a time to look back and evoke life calmly through the various worlds that we have looked at with the artists' eyes and the connectivity.