Hanmi Gallery’s 33rd interim exhibition is by Swedish-Korean artist Leonard Johansson. Leonard Johansson: Confessions of an Opium Eater 28 March – 27 April 2014, Every day 12-7pm Preview: Thursday 27 March Hanmi Gallery | 30 Maple Street | London | W1T 6HA | www.hanmigallery.co.uk Hanmi Gallery is pleased to present Confessions of an Opium Eater, … [Read More]
Category: Sculpture and Installation art (page 5)
Exhibition visit: Attention 1, at Hanmi Gallery
Do pay a visit to Hanmi Gallery for their 30th interim exhibition, Attention: 1 – featuring new work by Chung Yumi. Beautiful drawings, paintings and installations. The hand-stitched screens of vertical blinds, or using simple timber frames, embrace a range of textures and colours and remind one of the traditional craft of jogakbo. On till … [Read More]
Did you know pennies were magnetic?
Did you know pennies were magnetic? I certainly didn’t until yesterday evening, when I visited the opening of the Courtauld’s East Wing Biennial. And apparently 5p pieces are two. So says Yun Sungfeel, who should know. His series of works Looking at The real world from within The real world use hidden magnets to move … [Read More]
Attention: 1 – Yumi Chung, at Hanmi Gallery
The second of Hanmi Gallery’s exhibitions in 2014, and their 30th interim exhibition: Attention: 1 – Yumi Chung 정유미 Artist: Yumi Chung Preview: 24th January 2014, 6-9pm Date: 25th January – 2nd February 2014, 12-6pm (Tue-Sun) Venue: Hanmi Gallery, 30 Maple Street, London, W1T 6HA www.hanmigallery.co.uk Curated by Yovi Jisun Song Collaboration with Alpha Art … [Read More]
Exhibition visit — Jukhee Kwon: “I destroy books” (abandoned ones)
When you next take a book to a charity shop, there’s a chance that it might end up as a work of art. Jukhee Kwon takes her inspiration from books that have been abandoned by their owner. When she sees an abandoned book, with its closed cover, she wants to open it, to free its … [Read More]
A reason to go to Gangnam?
LKL has never been a particular fan of South of the Han. Most things we want to do and see tend to be North of the river. But like it or not, it’s where the money is. Reflecting the opulent demographic, in September this year Diageo opened Johnnie Walker House Seoul in Cheongdam-dong, its third … [Read More]
Artist talk by Jukhee Kwon, 7 December
To accompany her first solo exhibition at October Gallery, Jukhee Kwon will talk about her new work and how she creates sculptures from discarded books. Saturday, 7th December, 2013. 3pm. Admission £Free. October Gallery Please reserve a place on https://jukheekwon.eventbrite.co.uk/ October Gallery | 24 Old Gloucester Street | Bloomsbury | London WC1N 3AL [Map] | … [Read More]
Kim Minae’s playful disruptions, at HADA Contemporary
Kim Minae is best known for her puzzling structures: painstakingly constructed, they are concrete, purposeful-looking objects. But on second glance the objects clearly have no useful function. Thus, the strange skeletal telescope that was displayed at Futures Futures Future reflected your own eyeball back at you. In her group show at the National Museum of … [Read More]
Jukhee Kwon at October Gallery
I missed Jukhee Kwon’s solo show last year at La Scatola Gallery (now sadly closed), so I’ll be sure to catch her work at October Gallery this winter. Jukhee Kwon 5 December 2013 – 1 February 2014 October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL Tel: + 44 (0)20 7242 73670 | www.octobergallery.co.uk … [Read More]
Unfixed – Meekyoung Shin solo exhibition at the KCC
Meekyoung Shin finishes a phenomenally busy year with a solo show at the KCC. This exhibition takes the place of the annual group show that the KCC has held for the past few years through a Call for Artists process. Unfixed: A Solo Exhibition by Meekyoung Shin Exhibition Dates: 12 Nov 2013-18 Jan 2014 Private … [Read More]
Hur Shan and Won Jiho awarded bursaries by Royal British Society of Sculptors
Congratulations to Hur Shan and Won Jiho for winning bursaries from the Royal British Society of Scultpors. Along with other winners they will be featured in a group show at the society’s headquarters in South Kensington: Bursary Awards 2013 12 September 2013 – 18 October 2013 Wednesday–Friday, 12:30–5:30pm 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA … [Read More]
2013 Travel Diary #17: Suncheon Garden Expo — The Bridge of Dreams
Suncheon-si, Tuesday 10 September, 11am. The expo precincts are shaped like an inverted triangle, its long northern baseline lying on a straight road which leads eastwards to Gwangwang and westwards towards the tea fields of Boseong. This baseline is about two kilometres long, but in the heat it feels three times that. At the Sancheong … [Read More]
Sungfeel Yun’s Energy P-04 at Broomhill Sculpture Park
Ever on the lookout for work by Korean artists, LKL visited Broomhill Art Hotel, between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe in North Devon, last week. It was kind of on the way home from a family holiday in North Cornwall – a one-hour detour off the main route, plus a pleasant hour or so browsing around an … [Read More]
Media Skins: some photos from the Edinburgh installations
A few photographs, taken yesterday, of the Media Skins installation in Edinburgh as part of the 2013 International Festival. The installation was hung on the main frontage of the Festival Theatre, and also on hoardings in the square outside the Usher Hall. A poster in the Festival Theatre gave the following information: For this installation, … [Read More]
Reality Check at 43 Inverness Street
Notice of the next event at 43 Inverness Street: a one-day event with installations and a performance. Reality Check 28 August 2013 43 Inverness Street 6-9 pm 43 Inverness Street is pleased to announce Reality Check, a one-day event presenting artworks that involve sound, performance and installation on 28 August with artists Yoonsuk Choi, Ingeun … [Read More]
Sungfeel Yun finalist for Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2013
Congratulations to Sungfeel Yun for making it to the list of finalists for the 2013 National Sculpture Prize which is held at Broomhill Sculpture Gardens near Barnstaple in Devon. The exhibition will be on until 30 September, and the winner announced in October. You can vote for Sungfeel’s work on the competition website. [Read More]