Venue Lisson Gallery<\/a>, 27 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA Organised by Lisson Gallery in partnership with ArtReview, this panel discussion will engage in conversation with Lisson\u2019s new exhibition of Ha Chong-Hyun<\/a>, surveying the abstract painter\u2019s experimentation and mastery across six decades of pioneering work. <\/p>\n Based in Seoul, Ha has gained international recognition for combining elements of monochromatic, minimalist and gestural abstraction with the conceptual, performative and material aspects and possibilities of painting. <\/p>\n The exhibition<\/a> begins with Ha\u2019s early Naissance series, featuring geometric compositions of woven, painted strips and colourful folded and rippled canvases, dating to the late 1960s. These works positioned the artist firmly within the realm of objecthood, exploring the limits of the painted surface. The show follows Ha into the 1970s, where his burnt impasto surfaces, strewn with coiled springs or barbed wire directly onto the works, reflected South Korea\u2019s protracted periods of martial law and military dictatorship. Here, Ha alighted upon his signature method of pushing paint through the reverse of coarse hemp canvas \u2013 literally turning the painting process inside out. Rather than applying paint onto an image plane, Ha forces pigment through the woven structure of the canvas, allowing pressure and material resistance to shape the final form. These works, known collectively as the Conjunction series, continue to occupy a central place in Ha\u2019s practice to this day. Over time, the artist has expanded and refined this inquiry, demonstrating a life-long commitment to experimentation that has significantly shaped broader discussions of postwar abstraction. In the 2000s, his practice evolved into what has been described as the Post Conjunction series, extending his exploration of colour, scale, and spatial rhythm.<\/p>\n RSVP here<\/a><\/p>\n Ha Chong-Hyun is on view at Lisson Gallery, London, through 7 November<\/a><\/p>\n ArtReview<\/a>Partnership with Lisson Gallery<\/a>September 18, 2026artreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 13 October, join Prof Sook-Kyung Lee and Wenny Teo in conversation with ArtReview editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-628662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Date Tuesday 13 October
Time 11am\u20131pm
Featuring Prof Sook-Kyung Lee, Director, Whitworth Art Museum, The University of Manchester; Wenny Teo, Senior Lecturer, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Insitute; Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CHON210001_001-1230x1640.jpg\")
Conjunction 21-44, 2021, oil on hemp cloth, 91 x 73 x 7 cm. \u00a9 the artist. Courtesy Lisson Gallery<\/p>\n