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“Ways of Seeing” gallery talk at I-MYU

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by Philip Gowman on 3 February, 2010

in Events news, I-MYU

Some of the Korean artists participating in the group exhibition “Ways of Seeing” at I-MYU will be talking about their work at a gallery talk in the gallery on Thursday evening, 4 February at 7pm. This is part of I-MYU’s regular programme of talks about contemporary art.
Admission free. Well worth a visit.
I-MYU is based at
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Ways of Seeing at I-MYU

5 January 2010 Arts
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I-MYU’s 2010 exhibition season starts with a two-parter curated by Gunwoo Shin, who is also one of the participating artists.
Ways of Seeing
Part I: Opening reception : 7th January 2010 6-8pm 7 – 27 January 2010
Heena Kim | Jihye Park | Jung-Ouk Hong | Soonhak Kwon | Tina Hage
Part II: Opening reception : 29th January 2010 [...]

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Of Origin and Future II

2 November 2009 Events news
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Beccy Kennedy introduces I-MYU’s exhibition for Asian Art in London week
Venue: Alon Zakaim Fine Art
30 Cork street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3NG
Time: 29th October to 7 November 2009
Late night opening: 2nd of November 6-9pm
The Future of Originality
The movement which came to be known as postmodernism drew our attention to the spaces where originality used [...]

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Contemporary Korean Art in London: seminar and gallery talk

24 September 2009 Events news
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In conjunction with their current exhibition, Double Encounter, I-MYU is holding a seminar and gallery talk with a diverse panel of presenters: the artist, a gallery director, and a hopelessly out-of-his-depth blogger trying not to sound too much like a pseud.

The event is on 1 October at I-MYU’s space, 23 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3PB [...]

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Double Encounter at I-MYU

31 August 2009 Events news
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News of the upcoming exhibition at I-MYU.
3 September – 3 October 2009
I-MYU PROJECTS presents DOUBLE ENCONTER, a new large-scale work by Korean artist Hong Young In in her first major London solo show. To accompany the exhibition Hong launches her latest book: Where is Plin?

DOUBLE ENCOUNTER
A group of figures hover ghost-like, casting shadows of [...]

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The LKL Korea Trip 2009 pt 8: Galleries old and new

5 August 2009 I-MYU
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Wednesday 22 July

A pleasant late start to the morning. Im Jeongae from London’s I-MYU gallery happens to be in town, looking after the show of British artists at the Total Museum. We cruise the Samcheong-dong galleries together as the heat of the day becomes slightly cooler, and the daylight light becomes milkier. People are staring [...]

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Ephemera at I-MYU

25 July 2009 Events news
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Notice of I-MYU’s current show, featuring one of LKL’s favourite photographer-artists:

Ayoung Kim
“Ephemera”
24 July – 15 August 2009
Returning to the Scene of the Crime
Review by Lucy Soutter (2008)
Weegee was the first photographic ambulance chaser, the first to get his hands on a police radio and follow its calls through the night to photograph broken bodies, [...]

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Guerrilla artists take on the establishment

30 June 2009 Back Seung-woo
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In the north-east extremities of the City, on the fringes of bohemian Hoxton, is I-MYU, a small gallery on the first floor of a shared block. You need to ring the doorbell to gain admittance. Since its opening nearly two years ago, I-MYU has been championing the cause of Korean artists. Im Jeongae and Yu [...]

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Korean Old Pop at I-MYU

29 June 2009 Events news
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Notice of I-MYU’s latest exhibition, which is well worth a visit.
Korean Old Pop
Text by curator Min Byung Jic
This exhibition is not about the ‘old’ Korean Pop Art. This is because we consider Pop Art as something already inherent in contemporary art ‘for a long time’, not as a fixed form or style of art permeated [...]

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Jin Kim solo show at I-MYU

20 April 2009 Events news
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Details of Jin Kim’s solo show entitled “N_either” at I-MYU gallery

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Landslide at I-MYU

17 November 2008 Events news
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Details of I-MYU’s November show, with works by Gordon Cheung, Masakatsu Kondo and Sea Hyun Lee

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I-MYU goes West

6 November 2008 Asian Art in London
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As part of Asian Art in London I-MYU Projects is holding a special exhibition in Mayfair’s Cork Street entitled “Of Origin and Future”.

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Beautiful Fake at I-MYU

19 September 2008 Events news
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I-MYU’s first show of the Autumn is Beautiful Fake – a solo exhibition by Zinoo Park, who studied design at the Royal College of Art.

From the press release:
I-MYU Projects is pleased to present works by Korean artist Zinoo Park. Crossing the borders between fine art and design, Zinoo Park constructs playful, subversive and confrontational work [...]

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“Cantilever Left” at I-MYU

8 July 2008 Events news
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A notice of July’s show:
SANGBIN IM / HELENA BEN-ZENOU / YUJIN KANG
9 JULY -9 AUGUST 2008
Cantilever Left offers imbalance to systems of structure. The works presented redress architectural considerations of the urban environment, uprooting the historic past within the incongruous homogeny of the modern day global city. The works collectively unhinge considerations of urban space, [...]

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Impossible landscapes

7 July 2008 Event reports and reviews
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Recently in London we’ve seen two seemingly very different responses to traditional Korean and Chinese landscape painting. In March we had Lim Taek (임택) at I-MYU; just finished at Union we had Lee Sea-hyun (이세현). Both artists portray the familiar mountains, the occasional ancient pavilion dotting the landscape. But Lim’s mountains are simple blocks of [...]

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