The Byun Shi-Ji Atlas WORKS · FŪDO · LANGUAGES
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Beginning at the painted surface, moving through life, documents, philosophy, literature and world art, and returning to the painting.

100 philosophical essays50 comparative readings12 entrances
100 ESSAYS

A Century of Wind

One hundred philosophical themes crossing Byun Shi-Ji’s paintings in eight parts.

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FŪDO

Painter and Fūdo

World painters and Byun Shi-Ji reread through colour, line, interval, grammar and materiality.

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50 ESSAYS

Masterpieces, Reread

Fifty works of Western art reconsidered through Byun Shi-Ji’s aesthetics.

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VOICE

Oral-History Commentary

Seven sessions and fourteen hours establishing facts about return, canvas, storm, colour and Jeju.

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BODY

Iconography of the Bent Body

From the bowed nude to the old figures of Jeju.

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LITERATURE

Literary Ground

Reading Korean literature’s vernacular lyricism and language of solitude alongside Byun Shi-Ji’s aesthetics of fūdo.

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MUSEUM

The Gidang Museum

The permanent gallery in Seogwipo, the honorary directorship and the relation between work and museum.

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CHRONOLOGY

Life Chronology

Fifty-four principal events organised around physical documents and contemporary reporting.

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PRIMARY SOURCES

Detailed Chronology

Exhibitions, awards, education and works traced through 227 entries and 62 primary sources.

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Research on works, life, oral history, fūdo, literature and world art is connected here.