Bosco Sodi is an artist working globally, known for his densely textured paintings and objects with rich and vivid colors. His paintings are crystallized forms of arduous physical application; a constant cultivation of removing any hint of his own intent in the painting and populating the surface with the essence of material and fortuitous development. The artist works with the canvas laid down horizontally, applying a viscous mixture of soil, sawdust, glue and pigment to aggregate and then left to solidify over time. This process is a performance of sorts. That performance may last up to several months, with each accumulated strata of material testimony to the artist’s actions. Eventually, in that process, the layers cleft, and that is when the performance ends. From then on, all is left to time and nature’s forces. Cracks appear naturally on the surface and traces of material transforming from the material to the substrate to the whole of the artwork - a strikingly formal experiment in painting. Sodi’s works are included in various public and private collections, such as Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa; Harvard Art Museums, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Founded in 1989, Johyun Gallery seeks to define the present and future of Korean art within critical and historical frameworks of global contemporary art. The gallery has presented exhibitions by Korea’s leading postwar and Dansaekhwa artists including Park Seo-Bo, Yun Hyong-keun and Kim Chong Hak, supported influential mid-career artists such as Lee Bae, Lee Dongi and Jongsuk Yoon, and fostered emerging talents like Ahn Jisan, Kang Kang- Hoon and Lee So Yeun. In tandem with developing its core program of Korean artists, the gallery has also introduced domestic audiences to eminent international artists including Joseph Beuys, Pierre Soulages, Claude Viallat, Yayoi Kusama, Jin Meyerson and Bosco Sodi. In addition to mounting 10 exhibitions per year across two locations in Busan, Johyun Gallery has bolstered its regional presence with appearances at major art fairs throughout Asia and is poised for a breakout on the global stage in 2022.