SOAS has a series of East Asian Art and Archaeology Research Seminars. The next one is of relevance to Koreanists, and will be held in the Brunei Gallery, room B111 on Friday, 4 March, at 3 pm. All are welcome. Koryo and Liao Relations in the 10th-11th century – Impact on Buddhist Culture – Youngsook … [Read More]
Visual arts, crafts, design, fashion (page 88)
Korean Fighting Kites
Dominick Jenkins explains his passion for Korean kites. Suddenly, he was there. Peter Nam. His icon, a Black, White, Panda. It dances, manically, on the screen. Thirty years earlier. Late 1970s England. The Cotswolds. A full gale. The wind bends great beech and oak trees. Rain imminent. I am alone in a car parking lot. … [Read More]
4482 2011: Rhizosphere – Directions in Motion comes to the Bargehouse
The annual blockbuster group show of young Korean artists in London runs 24-27 February at the Bargehouse, bigger than ever: this year there are 60 artists exhibiting: The 4th 4482 Sasapari exhibition represents the largest ever showcase for Korean contemporary artists living and working in London. This year, entitled ‘Rhizosphere: Directions in Motion’, it presents … [Read More]
Shin Meekyoung in Haunch of Venison solo show
Shin Meekyoung has been showing her carefully crafted soap sculptures, and other works, around London for a few years now. LKL first came across her work at the Asia House four years ago in the Through the Looking Glass exhibition at Asia House. Last year she was among the eminent participants of the second Korean … [Read More]
Fun with Silla dynasty art at the London Art Fair
There was a distinctly Silla dynasty feeling to two of the stalls at the London Art Fair in January. Hur Shan’s trademark installations play with the concept of buildings in mid-construction or mid-demolition. Structural pillars are broken in two, revealing their reinforcing steel rods, and we wonder how the building remains standing. Rubble is piled … [Read More]
Furry Hat Offers Clues to DPRK Succession, says Chosun Ilbo
Sometimes there’s a downside to inheriting a country: you might have to wear your dad’s anorak and furry hat. http://bit.ly/hwJXpa # [Read More]
2011: the year of North Korean art?
Is 2011 the year of North Korean art? As a Mansudae show closes in Moscow at ВИНЗАВОД, http://bit.ly/ffagtg … # … another show of North Korean linocuts, from Nick Bonner’s collection, opens in Toronto: http://bit.ly/fN8Ezg # [Read More]
Rain Rain, Come Again
Bella Frey gets star-struck. And who can blame her? Rain in London in January, nothing unusual there. However Rain, as in Jung Ji-hoon, South Korea’s delightfully handsome mega pop star and actor, in London is definitely a once in a blue moon event. As soon as the news hit Facebook that he would be here … [Read More]
Hanmi Gallery at London Art Fair
Hanmi Gallery is a new gallery to the central London art scene – so new in fact that its gallery space is still under construction, and due to open in October this year in Maple Street, Fitzrovia. But it’s already established in Seocho-dong, Seoul, and has been trailing its London opening by holding a stall … [Read More]
Rain in promotional appearance at MCM Knightsbridge store
Rain is coming to London on Tuesday 25th. Not the weather. 비. Jung Ji-hoon. At least, according to this: http://on.fb.me/glBESt #. Knightsbridge, Tuesday at 2pm. But to meet him you have to buy a backpack. #. Forgot to say – the backpack in question could set you back £475. Well, this IS Knightsbridge (and it … [Read More]
Chang Uc-chin at Gallery Hyundai
Nice feature on famous artist Chang Ucchin in the Korea Times. Looks to be well worth a visit to Gallery Hyundai if you’re in Seoul. http://bit.ly/hOgH7L # [Read More]
Airport management and face cream among highlights for Brulé’s Brand Korea
Last weekend international design guru and Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brulé had an interesting column in the FT, listing out 10 things he likes about Korea. There’s some items which you might expect, and also some surprises. Brulé has rightly waxed lyrical about Incheon Airport before – and coincidentally Incheon has just been awarded the Korea … [Read More]
January Sale at James Freeman Gallery
Now this is a fun show. Hyemin Park has a number of strands to her work – at the Supervisions show at the KCC this time last year she had a project creating poetry out of restaurant names, for display in London Underground carriages. At the 4482 group show in the Bargehouse in February 2010 … [Read More]
Conference report: Korean War study day at Asia House
The 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 has given rise to a number of commemorative events this year. In November it was the turn of BAKS to present their own event at Asia House – an all-day seminar entitled Reflections on War and Peace: Sixty Years after the Korean War. … [Read More]
Nam June Paik retrospective at Tate Liverpool
With a Korean curator at Tate Liverpool since the beginning of 2008, it was only a matter of time before there was going to be a blockbuster Korean show there. Curator Lee Sook-kyung moved to Tate Liverpool from the Kings Lynn Arts Centre in 2008, having previously worked at the National Museum of Contemporary Art … [Read More]
Kimsooja in Aware: Art Fashion Identity at the Royal Academy of Arts
Korean video artist Kimsooja participates in group show at Royal Academy of Arts – GSK Contemporary Season 2010 – http://bit.ly/dYgt49 #: GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity 02.12.2010 – 30.01.2011 Full list of artists includes new commissions by Hussein Chalayan and Yinka Shonibare MBE The Royal Academy of Arts presents GSK Contemporary 2010, the … [Read More]