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Through the Looking Glass closes soon

12-Mar-07
It's your last chance to catch the Through the Looking Glass exhibition at Asia House. Quite by chance, and unfortunately making no reference to the show, the Times over the weekend featured one of the artists in a weekly column highlighting what's hot on the web arts-wise. Sweet Dreams Crayon drawings by small children are not merely destined for classroom walls or fridge doors. Oh no. In the case of the Korean photo artist Jung Yeondoo, they are the inspiration for his project Wonderland. Jung presents primitive kids' drawings, but click your mouse and they are transformed into real-life photographs, which try to ape every detail of the original. For example, the work Television was so Funny turns grinning girl figures into ...
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Uncovering Wonderland

05-Dec-06

Uncovering Wonderland

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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Circuit Diagram at Cell gallery

26-Oct-06
What do a 20 dollar bill, a spirit level, a geodesic dome, and a loudspeaker chanting Mongolian love songs in Korean have in common? That's the question posed by the introduction to a multinational contemporary art show in the Cell gallery space in Cambridge Heath Road, Hackney. And answered. The loudspeaker chanting the Mongolian love songs appears in the above installation by Kira Kim: A Security Garden as Paranoia (mixed media, 2006) (Apologies for the poor image quality: I only had my mobile phone with me on an unplanned visit). Other works on display by Korean artists were Lee Yong Baek: Angel Soldier Jeon Joon Ho: The White House Yeon Doo Jung: Location 12 The 20 dollar bill was a piece of video art by Jeon Joon ...
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