SEOUL — Sometimes a painting can be adjusted slightly and suddenly take on a new meaning for the artist. For Prae Pupityastaporn, a Thai landscape painter whose works are being presented at Frieze Seoul by the Nova Contemporary gallery in Bangkok, working with two similar paintings side by side can depict the delicate balance between memory and the present moment. An image can change ever so slightly, and ever so profoundly.
Pupityastaporn’s admirers wanted to share her works with the world, and the Korean fair’s Focus Asia section, which will spotlight 10 artists from Asia, seemed like a natural platform.
“Frieze Seoul is a new art fair, and Focus Asia is about bringing contemporary art to Seoul and reviewing and reflecting the new atmosphere of Asian contemporary art,” said Hyejung Jang, chief curator at Doosan Art Center in Seoul, a nonprofit gallery that…
