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Dedicated to the practice of the South Korean–German artist Jongsuk Yoon (@jongsuk_yoon ), the publication explores her gestural, vividly colored “landscapes of the soul” not as mere representations of nature, but as poetically charged spaces of encounter where imagination, memory, and cultural affiliations converge. In her painterly approach to Kŭmgangsan—the mountain range on the border between North and South Korea—the artist refers to the political dimension of historical murals. Oscillating between paradigms of East Asian traditions and Western modernism, Yoon’s transcultural visual language renders landscape, beyond national topographies, as a space of resonance where identity and a relation to the world can unfold. Essays by Heike Eipeldauer (@heikeeipeldauer ) and Adam Budak (@adam.h.budak ), as well as a conversation between Jongsuk Yoon (@jongsuk_yoon ) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (@hansulrichobrist ), provide a deeper understanding of the artist’s work and situate her unique position within contemporary art.

Selected as one of the best books in Artforum‘s December issue: Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture, edited by Heike Eipeldauer   “… a document of an envy-inducing curatorial endeavor by Heike Eipeldauer, lucidly laid out through a clever sequencing of images and essays …   Designer Martha Stutteregger aligns Rosso’s art to a book space with fidelity, rigor, and intention, from cover to cover. The book block is trimmed flush top and bottom, rhyming Rosso’s edge consciousness. The uncoated paper beautifully holds ink, and printed color fields are grounding and connect to the artist’s materiality and history … Stutteregger maps Rosso’s atmospherics on the page with her spacious margins and letting … These decisions simultaneously heighten the provisional affect of Rosso’s sculpture and situate Rosso and not-Rosso in distinct spatial and temporal places. The letters comprising the two typefaces possess their own internal character and liveliness, their weights solid but fleshy, like meat on bones. Overall, the design of the book, like the exhibition itself, is exceptional in every way. Kudos to the editors for including in situ exhibition documentation at the end of the book, notably after the colophon. It is a gift to “see” this beautiful, sensitive, and intelligent exhibition. The full-bleed images offer yet another kind of space: that of art situated in rooms, in conversation, in the world.”    Thank you to @purtillfamilybusiness and @artforum @mumok_vienna @kunstmuseumbasel @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig @gerindruckgmbh @heikeeipeldauer @elenaanafilipovic @museorosso @markuswoergoetter

« Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture » NEUBAU, Kunstmuseum Basel, until 10.08.2025 Curated by Heike Eipeldauer and Elena Filipovic, this exceptional exhibition draws on Medardo Rosso’s display strategies to articulate most of the movements in Western sculpture since the end of the 19th century. While one might sometimes regret the almost exclusive choice of small works, to facilitate the demonstration, the exhibition offers a unique reflection on modern sculpture and opens up the perspectives of contemporary museography. Brava @heikeeipeldauer and Elena Flipovic! Medardo Rosso (1-7), Eva Hesse (8), Isa Genzken, Rosemarie Trockel (9), Robert Gober (10) If you have any doubts about the value of making the trip, take a look at the list of works in the exhibition booklet. https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/file/7815/0751f79a/ROSSO_A5-Saalbooklet_EN_web_250604.pdf #medardorosso #modernsculpture #museumdisplay #exhibitiondisplay #evahesse #isagenzken #rosemarietrockel #robertgober #kunstmuseumbasel #contemporaryart #heikeeipeldauer #elenafilipovic #swissquality