The Armory 2025: Booth 236

4 - 7 September 2025

Gallery Rosenfeld at The Armory Show 2025 - Booth number 236

New York City, 4 – 7 September 2025

Gallery Rosenfeld is delighted to announce its participation at The Armory Show 2025 in New York, where the gallery will present two distinct booths: a solo presentation by Korean artist Bongsu Park and a group exhibition engaging with Old Master traditions through contemporary reinterpretations.

Booth 1 – Bongsu Park: Janhyang

For its first booth, Gallery Rosenfeld will stage an immersive solo presentation by Bongsu Park (b. Seoul, lives and works in London). The installation is dedicated to her ongoing Janhyang series (2025–), where the artist combines painting, sculpture, and fragrance to create a sensorial experience that transcends the visual.

The Korean word Janhyang translates to “reverberation.” It refers to both the lingering scent that remains after a presence has passed and the echo of a sound after it fades. Park’s delicate floral compositions—crafted from blossoms such as camellias, hyacinths, irises, primulas, and veronicas—become vessels of memory, embodying both the evidence of what once was and the emotional resonance that remains.

Incorporating plaster, oil on canvas, beech shelves, air-dried clay vessels, and bespoke fragrances, Park transforms the booth into a meditative environment where time, memory, and nature converge. Works such as Janhayang: Sun 6 April 2025 and Janhayang: Wed 30 April 2025 evoke the fleeting cycles of bloom and decay, inviting visitors to encounter painting as both an image and a scent, as much felt as seen.

Through Janhyang, Park continues her exploration of ephemeral memory, bridging Korean philosophy with a contemporary poetics of presence and absence.

Booth 2 – The Old Masters Reimagined

The second booth, a group presentation, brings together three internationally acclaimed artists—Teodora Axente, Xu Yang, and Natalia Ocerin—each engaging in dialogue with the Old Masters while grounding their practice in contemporary concerns.

Teodora Axente (b. 1984, Romania), a key figure of the Cluj School, presents two works that draw inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age, Early Renaissance, and the Sienese School. Her enigmatic, hybrid figures—part human, part fantastical—inhabit surreal spaces where sacred symbolism and material opulence coexist. At The Armory Show, the gallery will present The Moment, a painting dense with allegory: the pomegranate for rebirth, insects for metamorphosis, water for sanctification, and a sacred book referencing Siena’s Evangeliario.
Following the fair, Axente will debut her first major institutional solo exhibition, Metamorfosi del Sacro, at the Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena (13 November 2025), curated by Riccardo Freddo and Michela Eremita.
Xu Yang (b. 1996, Shandong, China) brings six works that merge Rococo opulence with her Chinese heritage, weaving narratives of identity, sexuality, and cultural history. Recently featured at the National Portrait Gallery, London as a part of Herbert Smith Freehills Cramer Protrait Award. Yang often inserts her own image into her paintings, confronting viewers with questions of representation and desire. Through mythological references and performative self-portraiture, her works transform historical grandeur into a contemporary language of self-exploration.
Natalia Ocerin (b. Spain, lives in London) contributes three works rooted in her hyperreal trompe-l’oeil practice. Beginning with plasticine sculptures that she later translates into oil paintings, Ocerin reimagines Old Master techniques through childlike yet incisive forms. Drawing inspiration from Barocci, she will soon participate in an exhibition at Museum MARV, Gradara, where her paintings will be shown in dialogue with original Old Master works. At The Armory Show, her satirical yet poignant compositions reveal the tension between playfulness and existential unease, merging past traditions with present anxieties, reamagining At The Armory Show, Ocerin presents one painting inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, reframed through her signature plasticine figures, alongside two works referencing Dante’s Inferno. Together, these pieces reveal the tension between playfulness and existential unease, merging past traditions with present anxieties and transforming canonical subjects into contemporary allegories.

Gallery Rosenfeld at The Armory Show 2025

By presenting two booths—an intimate, multisensory solo with Bongsu Park and a conceptually rich group show with Teodora Axente, Xu Yang, and Natalia Ocerin—Gallery Rosenfeld highlights its commitment to fostering dialogues between cultures, generations, and histories. The presentations invite viewers to reconsider the boundaries of tradition and innovation, material and immaterial, the visible and the invisible.

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