In September, Rolling the Cube: Artist Talk – The Hexahedron’s Tale filled Gallery Whiteone, RAUM Art Center, Seoul, with an audience eager to experience something out of the ordinary. The event, hosted by Hee-sun Kim, CEO of Team8 Partners, brought together painter Domin, mathematician Prof. Hyunseok Lee (Kwangwoon University), and musician Kim Deegie. For one hour, the trio explored a single artwork through three distinct forms of communication: sight, thought, and sound.
Rolling the Cube: The Hexahedron’s Tale—How Art, Math, and Music Meet in Seoul
One Painting, Three Perspectives
The format was clear and precise. Each speaker chose a painting from Domin’s solo exhibition The Hexahedron’s Tale, linked it to a mathematical principle, and translated it into music. Domin explained his approach to composition, Prof. Lee unfolded the theory behind it, and Kim Deegie revealed how that principle could live in rhythm and harmony. Each segment closed with a short audio excerpt, allowing the audience to connect ideas to sound immediately.
Three pairings anchored the talk:
- ENJOY THE MOMENT — The Golden Ratio (φ)
- THE VARIATION — Fractal Geometry
- BEYOND THE HEXAHEDRON — Chaos Theory
From balance and proportion to repetition and unpredictability, the conversation opened new ways of approaching the cube, showing how a simple shape could expand across disciplines.
A Shared Experience
This wasn’t a lecture but a rare hour of collective reading. The audience remained engaged throughout—seeing, thinking, and listening in sequence. In the middle of a crowded art fair week, the programme stood out for being inventive, precise, and playful.
Audience feedback reflected that energy: “I didn’t know you could enjoy a painting like this,” and “So an artist talk can work in this way—it was fun.” By looping together looking, listening, and reflecting, the event removed barriers and proved that art can be approached through multiple languages without losing depth.
Expanding the Cube
The talk directly grew from The Hexahedron’s Tale, Domin’s solo exhibition, inspired by the cube as both a structure and a metaphor. Responding to seven of the works, Kim Deegie created a soundtrack of seven tracks, each developed with Prof. Lee around a different mathematical principle. What the artist’s talk offered was a live demonstration of this process, showing how one form could become three: painting, equation, and sound.
Visitors can experience the full exhibition at Gallery Whiteone, RAUM Art Center, Seoul, running from September 4 to September 14, 2025, open daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Alongside the paintings, the soundtrack is available to audiences worldwide on Spotify and major streaming platforms.
Beyond the Formal Talk
When the structured dialogue ended, the evening shifted into something more relaxed. Mixologist Seong-ha Lee presented a cocktail inspired by the collaboration, layering flavours and aromas that echoed the themes of structure and variation. Guests stayed on to mingle with the artists, continuing conversations in front of the works themselves.
Why It Resonates
At its heart, Rolling the Cube is about what happens when art moves beyond its usual borders. A painter, a mathematician, and a musician each spoke in their own medium, but together they built a shared conversation. It was lively, layered, and accessible, giving the audience not a single answer but a different way of seeing and hearing.
By weaving visual form, mathematical structure, and sound, the project expanded how a gallery space can function. It reminded everyone present that art is not confined to what we see—it can be measured, translated, and felt through multiple senses. The memory that lingered was not just of paintings or music, but of the act of paying attention in a new way.
For Seoul’s cultural calendar, Rolling the Cube added something rare: a model for dialogue across disciplines that was as thoughtful as it was playful. And for those who attended, it was an evening that shifted perspective—proof that even a cube can hold infinite possibilities.
Where and When
At Gallery Whiteone, RAUM Art Center, Seoul, visitors can experience Domin’s solo exhibition The Hexahedron’s Tale from September 4 to September 14, 2025, open daily 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM. The project expands a simple cube into painting, mathematics, and sound through the collaboration of Domin, Kim Deegie, and Prof. Hyunseok Lee.
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