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The Sarira Casket

posted updated 12 May 2020 by Matthew Jackson 3 minute read

Matthew Jackson describes one of the Buddhist treasures in the Seoul National Museum. Of the few people I have asked who have visited the Seoul National Museum, no one has mentioned the Gameunsa Sarira Casket as the high point of their tour. When I visited the museum myself, even though I was specifically looking out … [Read More]

Beautiful Fake at I-MYU

event date 20 Sep - 04 Oct 2008 venue I-MYU Projects posted

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 … [Read More]

Vessels Gallery talk at the KCC

event date Tue 09 Sep 2008 venue KCCUK posted

A reminder of the lecture “Two Perspectives on UK & Korean Ceramics” at the KCC on Tuesday 9 September. I’ll be up in Cambridge watching Springtime on the Peninsula (1941) at the BAKS conference, so if anyone feels like providing a report of the lecture for this site, feel free. Here’s some useful background, courtesy … [Read More]

Exhibition news: Vessels at the KCC

event date 12 Aug - 25 Sep 2008 venue KCCUK posted

The KCC’s exhibition for August and September is a juxtaposition of work by British and Korean ceramicists. Vessels: Ceramicists from Korea & UK Exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK 12 August – 25 September 2008 Participating Artists (in alphabetical order): Felicity Aylieff | Sena Gu | Jeong Yong Han | Chris Keenan | Sun … [Read More]

Suh Do-ho in Psycho Buildings

event date 28 May - 25 Aug 2008 venue Hayward Gallery posted

Psycho Buildings is a cosmopolitan collaboration in which artists from as far afield as Tokyo and Cuba “take on” architecture. Suh Do-ho (right) is one of the diaspora of Korean artists working in various countries around the world. Like Baik Nam June, Suh has chosen to make his home in America. Suh’s work has in … [Read More]

Dae Hun Kwon in The Situation

event date 17 Jul - 18 Jul 2008 posted

There’s some sort of funky alternative event being held at the funky alternative end of Clapham on Thursday, to do with London Lit Plus: The Situation: Back to Basics July 17, 2008 7:00 pm to July 18, 2008 1:00 am. The Situation presents the dialectical unification of art and life: art / music / performance … [Read More]

Architecture lectures at KCC

event date 11 Jul - 22 Jul 2008 venue KCCUK posted

Two talks this month in connection with the London Festival of Architecture and the U_Design City exhibition at the KCC. From the KCC website: Korean Cultural Centre UK’s U_Design City_Seoul exhibition, in association with London Architectural Festival and in collaboration with Seoul Metropolitan City Government, runs from 20 June to 2 August. The exhibition introduces … [Read More]

“Cantilever Left” at I-MYU

event date 09 Jul - 09 Aug 2008 venue I-MYU Projects posted

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 … [Read More]

Impossible landscapes: two exhibitions by Lim Taek and Lee Sea-hyun

posted updated 20 Jul 2020 by Philip Gowman 6 minute read

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 … [Read More]

Francesca Cho in “Free Words”

event date 15 Jul - 31 Jul 2008 posted

Francesca Cho will be participating in the group exhibition ‘Free words’ at the Mayfair Public Library, 15 – 31 July. This is the first exhibition to be held in the library space and complements nicely the National Year of Reading. ‘Free words’ explores the censored word, printed matter and use of language as means of … [Read More]

Maps political and pictorial

posted updated 19 Jul 2020 by Philip Gowman 2 minute read

I’m sorry I never had any time to write up the Map exhibition at the KCC properly. Alas, it’s over now. I managed to miss most of Beth McKillop’s informative talk, and never had the chance to persuade Shin Eunjeong to show me around. If I get a moment I’ll do a quick Reader’s Digest … [Read More]