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Korean contemporary art show at the Union Gallery, October / November 2006

Kimchi juice: the art medium of the future

30-Sep-06
I went to the "Give me Shelter" exhibition at the Union Gallery one lunchtime this week, as it's only 15 minutes walk from my office. I'll be going back again. Possibly the easiest works to relate to are the biggest and the smallest. Hyungkoo Lee's skeletal coyote and roadrunner occupied a whole room, atmospherically lit. As for the smallest exhibits -- well, you could almost miss them: Dongwook Lee's tiny human figures, only a couple of inches high at most, mounted on little shelves here and there. The most sinister was a nude male figure with arms where the legs should be. There's some large-scale sculptural work (Osang Gwon - above right) which looks like ceramics but is in ...
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“Give me Shelter” at the Union Gallery

26-Sep-06
Thanks to Peter Corbishley who told me about this exhibition over a soju or two at the Anglo-Korean Society V&A evening. At the Union Gallery in Southwark there's an exhibition of works - sculpture and paintings - by five emerging Korean artists, Hyunjhin Baik, Suejin Chung, Osang Gwon, Dongwook Lee and Hyungkoo Lee. Above is a still from a Lee Hyung-koo installation - a skeletal Roadrunner in an eternal chase with a similarly skeletal Wile E. Coyote. Open six days a week (closed Sundays), the gallery website is here. As ever, it's now on my calendar, with links to the gallery site and google maps. Until November 28.
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