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Category Archives: Kim Kira

The Rise of the Korean Art Market

30-Jan-07
The Korea Times records how the Korean Art market is beginning to boom. Perhaps carried on the coat-tails of the ebullient Chinese art market, prices for major Korean artists are edging up. Lee Ufan is one of the hot artists, and also Park Soo-keun, Kim Whanki and Chang Uc-chin. And last year Elton John made a nice return on a Bae Bien-u photograph. An important indicator of the rise in the Korean Art market is the increasing exposure of contemporary artists in the West. Taking the UK as an example, the current Asia House show is one of the first exhibitions to have invited Korean artists to participate, with works specially commissioned for the show. And 2007 will see no less ...
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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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