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Chun Woo-jung

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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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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The ribbon is cut; the Centre is open

2 February 2008 Bae Junsung

Jennifer Barclay reports from the official opening ceremony of the new Korean Cultural Centre UK.
Korea has been ’setting the pace of popular culture far beyond its boundaries in the last decade,’ noted Mr Andrew Ramsay (left) of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the opening remarks at the launch of the Korean Cultural [...]

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