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Of Origin and Future II

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by Beccy Kennedy on 2 November, 2009

in Events news, I-MYU, Lee Gil-woo, Lee Lee-nam, Other exhibitions

Beccy Kennedy introduces I-MYU’s exhibition for Asian Art in London week
Venue: Alon Zakaim Fine Art
30 Cork street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3NG
Time: 29th October to 7 November 2009
Late night opening: 2nd of November 6-9pm
The Future of Originality
The movement which came to be known as postmodernism drew our attention to the spaces where originality used [...]

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Forms without Pro formas

15 December 2008 Entry Forms
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Beccy Kennedy reviews the group show by London-based Korean artists, held at the Korean Cultural Centre in December 2009.

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The Birth of the YKABs (Young Korean Artists in Britain)!

21 October 2008 4482
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‘4482: Korean Contemporary Artists London’ exhibition, 16th – 19th October.
Seminar, ‘How to promote Korean Art Abroad,’ 18th October 2008.
Both at Bargehouse, Southwark.
Report by Beccy Kennedy
Take forty contemporary artists, a fervent independent curator, an unexpected art space, four floors of art works in throngs of media and genres, and a thriving spot by the Thames, and [...]

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Korea, Manchester and the International Art Triennial

26 April 2008 Choe U-ram
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Beccy Kennedy reports
Britain’s first Triennial of Asian Art launched earlier this month, when a gaggle of global art goers gathered in the grandiose foyer and atrium of Manchester Art Gallery to preview the outstanding art installations from Korea. Of the five Asian countries selected by galleries in Manchester: China, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, the [...]

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Art for the People, Art by the People

7 March 2008 Exhibition reviews and comment
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Beccy Kennedy muses on an unnoticed exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre:
Korean Folk Painting on White Porcelain : Kim So Sun
(30 January – 28 March 2008)
There is another exhibition on at the new Korean Cultural Centre at the moment and it doesn’t involve vociferous video installations by trans-cultural 20th century big wigs. In fact, there [...]

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Korean Links in Manchester

6 February 2008 Events news

Beccy Kennedy, PhD candidate in contemporary Asian art at MIRIAD, and LKL’s visual arts correspondent, writes to remind us that London is not the only place in the UK to get your fix of Korean culture.
If you don’t already live here and have ever felt like paying a visit to Britain’s birthplace of the Industrial [...]

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From East to East: Time Space Extension

4 December 2007 Exhibition reviews and comment
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Arcadia
A group exhibition with Korean and British artists: Dae Hun Kwon, Victoria Hall and Jin Kim
22 Novemeber 2007 – 12 January 2008
I-MYU Projects, 23 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB
Review by Beccy Kennedy
Globalisation theory uses the term “time-space compression” [1] to elucidate the concept of a new world without distinct nations, where borders are malleable and [...]

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Jung at Heart

17 September 2007 Bae Jung-mi
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Beccy Kennedy reviews an exhibition of Korean artists in Finchley, North London, September 2007, and interviews two of the artists. Work by Jung-mi Bae, Chul-won Kwak and Sang-yoon Yoon.

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Catering for the Audience

28 March 2007 Event reports and reviews
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Sora Kim — Melting Alaska, BALTIC, Gateshead
14 February – 29 April 2007
Review by Beccy Kennedy

Whilst munching on spicy chorizo stotties — a dish given the name Smoky Mountain — we browsed the inimitable menus, commented on the amorous musical medley and read the bright red words stuck to the windows, trying to decipher which phrases [...]

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Song from the roof-top

3 February 2007 Event reports and reviews
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Bada Song’s Installation Piece at “So-Called Life” exhibition,
Camberwell College of Arts, 11 January – 9 February 2007.
Review by Beccy Kennedy
The photographs and installation art works displayed in the foyer of the Camberwell College of Arts for “So-called Life” are challenging of our expectations of the exhibition space and also perhaps of our assumptions of multi-media [...]

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Korean art: Unstoppable forces and immovable objects

17 December 2006 Cho, Francesca
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Still Dynamics: The Korean Contemporary Art Show
The Jerwood Space, 14-20 December
Review by Beccy Kennedy
The serene setting of the Jerwood Space provides the perfect offset for the vivid works of eleven Korean artists. With the exception of Kira Kim’s light installation, I Love U, and Sangjun Roh’s miniature, cardboard people, the works are surprisingly painterly for [...]

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Uncovering Wonderland

5 December 2006 Cho Duck-hyun
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Review of the Asia House exhibition by Beccy Kennedy
The multi-storey, multi-story exhibition of contemporary Korean art at Asia House, Through the Looking Glass, provides a multi-faceted Korean art experience, in terms of the media used and the themes approached by the artists. Independent curator, Jiyoon Lee, uses the looking glass as an audience-friendly metaphor to [...]

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