The 2023 season opens with the first exhibition in Korea by French artist Christian Bonnefoi (b. 1948). Entitled “The Race of a Hare”, it brings together nineteen pieces from six emblematic series by the artist. Bonnefoi has worked for decades to renew the conceptual basis of painting itself, long defined by its two-dimensionality. In the mid-1970s, he took up collage, cutting up the motifs on his canvases and splicing them with other media to play with effects of transparency, thus liberating painting from its two dimensions by revealing the reverse side. In Seoul, the public will be able to discover pieces from the Dos (“backs”) series, inspired by reliefs by Matisse, whose vision was fundamental to Bonnefoi’s approach. Other pieces provide further insights into his singular practice, the theoretical basis of which is supported by his writings as art historian and author.