To begin the year, we present a duo exhibition featuring Moon-Pil Shim and Sigurd Rompza. Two of Moon-Pil Shim's works will soon join the collections of the Cernuschi Museum, on the occasion of the Year of Korea in France. His luminous and sensitive works are presented here in dialogue with those of Sigurd Rompza, a major German concrete artist whose practice explores the fundamental relationships between form, color, surface, light, and space. Currently exhibiting at the Moderne Galerie in Saarbrücken, Rompza juxtaposes his works with the poems of the philosopher and poet Eugen Gomringer, founder of concrete poetry.

In both Moon-Pil Shim's and Sigurd Rompza's work, the artwork is anchored to the wall, in that vertical space that connects the viewer's gaze to their body. In Moon-Pil Shim's work, layers of paint and plexiglass create a floating space: the color emerges, soft, sometimes diffuse, as if suspended between two breaths. The transparency of the plexiglass filters and softens the light, sometimes blurring the contours and inviting the viewer to approach and experience its depth. In Rompza's work, the painting emerges from the wall in colorful reliefs: lines, angles, slopes, and volumes that seem to extend and stretch beyond the surface, playing with shadow and light in a precise tension between plane and projection. Where Moon-Pil Shim opens the surface inward, Rompza projects it outward; both artists shift the painting toward a physical experience, at eye level, where perception depends on the viewer's movement. Both assert a luminous and constructed frontality, where painting becomes presence, between apparition and matter.