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Venice Biennale 2009

Woojung Chun’s library of mysteries

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by Philip Gowman on 18 November, 2009

in Chun Woo-jung, Exhibition reviews and comment, Venice Biennale 2009

LKL completes its coverage of Korean artists at the Venice Biennale.

If you browse the shopping streets of Venice, among the numerous tourist outlets selling carnival masks, murano glass and designer clothes, you might find one or two shops selling well-crafted model book-cases: too big for your average dolls house, but nevertheless covetable. Something you appreciate [...]

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2009 Biennale footnotes

10 November 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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Three Korean-born artists had solo shows at the 2009 Venice Biennale: Haegue Yang in the national pavillion, and Woojung Chun and Atta Kim as collateral events.
In LKL’s brief sojourn in Venice, it was not possible to get around all the Korean participants in various group shows, but for the record, they were:
1: Lim Won-ju in [...]

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Atta Kim’s melting moments

7 November 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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The Dorsoduro, Venice’s south-western quarter, has a completely different atmosphere from the hustle and bustle of the tourist areas around St Mark’s across the Grand Canal. It’s busy around the Peggy Guggenheim museum, but further west, beyond the Campo Santa Margherita, the crowds thin out. Here, alongside a narrow waterway on the Fondamenta del Soccorso [...]

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Fan Death in Venice – the Korean Pavilion at the Biennale

3 November 2009 Exhibition reviews and comment
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In a collection of National Pavilions which includes a big aluminium cage (France), some unfinished pine kitchen furniture (Germany) and a reconstruction of a celebrity gay swimming pool death (Nordic countries) the Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale is in good company in making you scratch your head a little bit. What is one to [...]

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-26

26 October 2009 Bloggers and newspeople
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I find I’ve won a prize in a B-boy competition, without even entering. Bet you never knew I was a top popper #
@tawalker A final polish, and another 140 words, and it will probably scrape a 2:2. I've sent it in now. Too late to do anything more. in reply to tawalker #
Don't forget the [...]

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Condensation: Haegue Yang at the Venice Biennale

3 June 2009 Events news
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A press release giving details of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009
Condensation: Haegue Yang
June 7–November 22, 2009
Korean Pavilion
53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia
Commissioner: Eungie Joo
In the exhibition “Condensation”, Haegue Yang explores private or hidden spaces that might be considered nebensächlich (marginal or insignificant) but to the artist constitute profound backdrops for understanding: [...]

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Library: Chun Woojung at the Venice Biennale

3 June 2009 Chun Woo-jung
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Details of one of the Collateral Events at Venice. Text courtesy of curator James Putnam
Library
Chun Woo-jung (천우정)
53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia Collateral Event
curated by James Putnam
“The universe (which others call the Library)…”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
The library is a potent metaphor for knowledge that evokes images of organization, study, research and [...]

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Atta Kim: ON-AIR

3 June 2009 Events news
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Details of one of the Collateral events at Venice, text courtesy of Arte Communications:
AttaKim: ON-AIR: collateral event of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Inauguration: 5 June 2009 at 1.00 pm
Preview: 4 – 6 June 2009; opening hours 10.00 am – 8.00 pm
Open to the public: 7 June – 22 November 2009; [...]

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