“Ai to Love” is the third exhibition in the series titled “Hi, Ai!”. The exhibition features design ideas for Christmas and New Year’s cards submitted by ordinary citizens, presented in a video. Many people submitted their entries in a contest that ran from October 18 to November 10. We thank all of you who participated in the contest. We hope you wrap up the year on a pleasant note with Ai to Love and wish you a Happy New Year!
The exhibition “Ai to Love” will be held from December 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. It presents calligraphic works and hand-drawn pictures with the theme of Christmas and New Year that people submitted in a contest. The selected entries will be shown in a video. Ai programs have been used to turn these entries into cards either in actual or 3D images that tell stories of people’s lives and wishes as they morph from one to another against a backdrop of winter scenery. The exhibition held at Haechi Madang with a winter setting will allow the audience to see how technology and humans can coexist in peace and harmony.
Ai Technology
The cards on display at the exhibition have been created using ideas submitted by ordinary citizens in a contest, and the image-creating Ai technology was used to create the cards in actual or 3D images. A card has two images, one of which morphs into the other, so they look like a single seamless video.
The exhibition, “Jung-seop, the Artist Korea Loves” features 27 works of artist Jung-seop Lee on an imposing media façade to maximize the impact of each work. The exhibition is divided into five parts of “The Joy and Solace of Life”, “A Landscape where Jung-seop Once Stayed”, “A Letter & a Painting: The Colors of Love that Can’t Be Painted”, “The Spirit of Art Alive on Silver Foil Paper”, and “Family: A Picture Drawn by Heart” White Bull (in 1953), one of artist Lee’s most well-known works has been shown in a 3D animation to describe the dynamic energy. The village in his painting “A View of Seopseom Island” (in 1951) is re-created in 3D, which shows the culmination of media art that brings together art and technology. Artist Lee’s other works including “Hyeonhaetan” (the Straights of Korea) (in 1954), “Family Leaving the Streets” (in 1954) and drawings on silver foil paper, all of which express a profound love for family, have been reproduced in an animation format to provide an opportunity for us to reflect upon the meaning of family to us all.
Artist Jung-seop Lee
Artist Jung-seop Lee is one of the artists most well known to the Korean public and who represents the 20th century modern and contemporary art in S. Korea. Artist Lee’s most common themes, which are closely connected to his personal experiences, include bulls, crabs, fish, children, chickens and family. He often painted them on silver foil paper and post cards. His paintings are often characterized by a sense of humor and the sensitivity of an innocent young boy. Artist Lee embarked on his career as an artist in Japan while Korea was subject to Japanese colonial rule, and returned to Korea right before its liberation from the Japanese colonial rule. During the Korean War, he moved to Jeju and Busan, and lived in different cities including Tongyeong, Seoul and Daegu immediately after the war ended. Lee continued to create works with passion despite challenging circumstances until his untimely death in 1956 at the age of 40.