"Towards an Island" from SHIM MOON SEUP in Paris

My friend Cyril Ermel a.k.a Cyril Von Paris, director of the IBU GALLERY in Paris, told me about the exhibition he held in is gallery and in the gardens of the Palais Royal, in Paris.


So I decided to write a post showing the work of SHIM MOON SEUP, famous Korean artist, worldwide exhibited. His artworks dialogue with artists such as Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Erik Dietman, Huang Yeu Ping, Lee Ufan, Tony Oursler.

SHIM MOON SEUP, presents his works and takes part of the contemporary sculpture appointment of the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris.
This exhibition offers a trip in the garden of the Palais Royal, described by the artist as “this garden where the wind blows, carving this wind and creating a garden which moves towards another world”. SHIM MOON SEUP seeks “to carry out the dream of the unknown world, to communicate to the viewer”.


“Towards an island”, is an exhibition of 10 works, made of water, wood, iron and stone and invites you to a ludic path between contemporary art and Asian culture. Part of the gardens, the artworks invest it in a natural way. Just like the immaterial wind, water is an essential component of the exhibition.
According to the artist, “in my works, either made out of tree, either made out of stone, water runs the way of gravity and also comes back. Water is a reason to explain the course of life. It symbolizes the eternal system which has neither beginning nor end”. Indeed water is in each work, physically or poetically present.


This exhibition is detailed at IBU GALLERY Gardens of the Palais Royal. The drawings, painted photographs and sculptures out of wood and metal of SHIM MOON SEUP that are exhibited in the gallery, also give us information on the genesis and understanding of the artworks set up in the gardens.

To learn more :

"TOWARDS an ISLAND” by SHIM MOON SEUP
In free access in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris.

Also drawings, painted photographs and sculptures by SHIM MOON SEUP at IBU GALLERY : 166 galerie de Valois Paris 1er.
Every day from 8 to 11.
Curators : Soeun and Cyril Ermel