Cranbrook Art Museum presents a group exhibition Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality featuring Kwon Young-Woo, Park Seo-Bo, Lee Ufan, and Ha Chong-Hyun until October 6. It examines five art scenes reconsidering a period of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations and material-driven narratives: America’s Detroit from the 1967 rebellion to the present; the cultural climate of the Italian avant-garde during the 1960s-1980s; authoritarian-ruled South Korea of the 1970s; Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s to the present; and contemporary Greece since the financial crisis of 2009. Featuring more than 60 artists around the world, including Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Korean artists, Kwon Young-Woo, Park Seo-Bo, Park Hyun-Ki, Yun Hyong-Keun, Lee Ufan, and Ha Chong-Hyun, Landlord Colors, a landmark exhibition, unearths material texture and unexpected relationship between these diverse artists.

Under the theme, authoritarian-ruled South Korea of the 1970s, representatives of Korean art present: Kwon Young-Woo’s Untitled(1976), Park Seo-Bo’s Ecriture (描法) No. 65-75(1975), Ha Chong-Hyun’s early steel spring work Untitled 72-(A)-1(1972) and Conjunction series Conjunction 79-9(1979), and Lee Ufan’s Relatum installation.