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Uncovering Wonderland

05-Dec-06
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 describe the need for investigation between the worlds of Britain and Korea, as they collide within a globalising world. On one side of the glass are Korean art works, from an art world of which the British mind is perhaps unfamiliar; on the other side of the glass is this uninformed British consciousness, carrying with it assumptions and expectations of Korean culture. The two worlds ...
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“Through the Looking Glass” panel discussion at Asia house

26-Nov-06
Yesterday morning's panel session gave a priveleged ((And good value, at only £4)) insight into the work of some of the artists represented at the stimulating show at Asia House. Chaired by Beth McKillop of the V&A, the discussant panel included Alessio Antoniolli from Gasworks, Hans Ulrich Obrist from The Serpentine, curator Jiyoon Lee and artists Duck-hyun Cho, Yeondoo Jung, Jeong-hwa Choi and Meekyoung Shin. The artists presented some of their work outside of the pieces on display at Asia House. Choi Jeong-hwa talked about his colourful Flower Tree installations (most recently in Singapore - left) and his Happy Happy project in Christchurch, New Zealand (right), which fences off a children's play area with brightly-coloured plastic objects. Other works (such as ...
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