In “Tracing Picasso,” Chae Tongyull doesn’t copy the Spanish master—he traces him. Not in outline, but in essence: transforming Picasso’s fractured forms and split faces into something entirely his own. Across 47 unique one-of-one works, Chae anchors each piece in a circular composition, revisiting themes he’s long been drawn to: lovers in close embrace, eyes locked or joined in a single gaze. Painted with oil and acrylic on paper, “Tracing Picasso” is a return to the visual vocabulary that helped shape him, now rewritten in his voice.
