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Catering for the Audience

28-Mar-07

Catering for the Audience

Sora Kim -- Melting Alaska, BALTIC, Gateshead 14 February - 29 April 2007 Review by Beccy Kennedy Whilst munching on spicy chorizo stotties -- a dish given the name Smoky Mountain -- we browsed the inimitable menus, commented on the amorous musical medley and read the bright red words stuck to the windows, trying to decipher which phrases answered which questions. These questions, focusing on romantic memory, were devised by Korean artist Sora Kim, and posed to local Newcastle residents. The findings were then assimilated into a multi-sensory café installation incorporating: a range of correspondingly conceived recipes, a selection of new but mismatched furniture and a small TV screen demonstrating how to cook (the contents of the menu?). It looked vaguely atypical for ...
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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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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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