Making sense of the abstract

Dansaekhwa, a low-profile South Korean art genre, will be presented in Shanghai this fall. Deng Zhangyu reports in Seoul.

Dansaekhwa, a genre of monochromatic paintings from South Korea, will make its Chinese mainland debut in September.

The show at Yuz Museum in Shanghai, featuring more than 70 works by different artists, including the elderly, is expected to draw collectors and lovers of art who share cultural similarities with Korean people. The artworks are largely abstract paintings, with emphases on materials and process, made since the mid-1970s.