Price
₩500,000
A unique original — the only one in the world
Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.
Voices of fellow artists
“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”
— 50s, theater artist
167 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
Gate of Hell
Salnus
- Category
- Painting
- Material
- Acrylic on canvas
- Size
- 26×41cm · Size 6 · Small How big is this? →
- Year
- 2023
- Price
- ₩500,000
- Availability
- For sale
About the Artist
Salnus is a Seoul-based painting and drawing artist. Having experimented with various media including painting, drawing, installation, and animation, he has recently focused his practice on painting and drawing. His work repeatedly engages with geometric structures, transparent objects, spheres and circular forms, and distorted images of the body, addressing voyeurism, the grotesque, and the relationship between 'being seen and being concealed' as major themes. Through transparent materials such as glass, crystal spheres, and semi-translucent structures combined with geometric forms, Salnus has consistently juxtaposed the tensions between decorativeness and violence, order and instability within his canvases. Moving between painting and installation, flat surface and three-dimensional form, narrative and structure, he is interested in constructing an image world that is both sensory and structural. Based in Seoul, he has participated in numerous curated exhibitions since his solo show Reverse Pursuit (2014). Recently, through expanded installations of past drawings and sketches and the serial work The Story of the Snake Following the Marble, he has been developing a practice that weaves flat and three-dimensional elements and the entire exhibition space into a single narrative structure.
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Magazine
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“Is this price fair?” The question every buyer asks. To answer it you need to understand the four forces that set art prices: artist, medium, size, and date.
May 2, 2026 · Seed Art FestivalRelated materials
Two beginnings made by one piece
- For you —
- One-of-a-kind in the world
- For the artist —
- the pride of standing with a peer
- For a fellow artist —
- a new ₩3,000,000 path of low-interest support
354 artists have walked this path of recovery; 95% returned to open it for the next.