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Gwon Osang

Korea, Manchester and the International Art Triennial

by Beccy Kennedy on 26 April, 2008

in Choe U-ram, Exhibition reviews and comment, General arts news, Gwon Osang, Manchester

Beccy Kennedy reports
Britain’s first Triennial of Asian Art launched earlier this month, when a gaggle of global art goers gathered in the grandiose foyer and atrium of Manchester Art Gallery to preview the outstanding art installations from Korea. Of the five Asian countries selected by galleries in Manchester: China, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, the [...]

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Good Evening, Ms. Jiyoon Lee!

11 March 2008 Conference reports
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Matthew Jackson reports from last Thursday’s gallery talk at the KCC
I had assumed that the Nam June Paik talk by Jiyoon Lee would take the form of a tour around the gallery itself. The schedule of the evening was fuller than I had expected, and required the setting of the ‘Sejong Room’ on the basement [...]

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Kimchi juice: the art medium of the future

30 September 2006 Baik Hyunjhin

I went to the “Give me Shelter” exhibition at the Union Gallery one lunchtime this week, as it’s only 15 minutes walk from my office. I’ll be going back again. Possibly the easiest works to relate to are the biggest and the smallest. Hyungkoo Lee’s skeletal coyote and roadrunner occupied a whole room, atmospherically [...]

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“Give me Shelter” at the Union Gallery

26 September 2006 Baik Hyunjhin

Thanks to Peter Corbishley who told me about this exhibition over a soju or two at the Anglo-Korean Society V&A evening.
At the Union Gallery in Southwark there’s an exhibition of works – sculpture and paintings – by five emerging Korean artists, Hyunjhin Baik, Suejin Chung, Osang Gwon, Dongwook Lee and Hyungkoo Lee. Above is a [...]

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Four emerging artists

18 June 2006 Gwon Osang

From a recent two-part article in the Korea Herald:

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