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Gallery Baton presents a survey exhibition of Song Burnsoo’s 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 series from 25 April to 25 May at Blue Baton, a window gallery space.Song Burnsoo (b. 1943) is a leading figure of Korean modernism and a formative member of the Korean avant-garde movement. Spanning over half a century, Song developed his trans-medium approach, contemplating existential themes through a deeply spiritual and formally innovative lens.

The motif of ‘thorn’ is concretized gradually from the mid-1970 after his studying in Paris. Starting to describe roses with distinctive sharp thorns in prints, …