Hong Kong, December 14, 2015 – January 23, 2016, http://www.aaa.org.hk A chamber exhibition within the AAA library space, looking at Filipino musician and composer Jose Maceda as an associative starting point for collecting a range of artworks and materials. It was good to see it together with the curator’s (Inti Guerero) guidance. Listening to his…
Hong Kong, November 26, 2015 – January 9, 2016, http://www.gagosian.com A group exhibition consisting of selected pieces from the Gagosian Hong Kong storage, together with some excellent Chinese antiques from the storages of collaborating Gisele Croes Art d’Extreme Orient. For the Gagosian part, it was a mash up of the gallery’s who is who, also…
Hong Kong, December 12, 2015 – March 06, 2015, http://www.para-site.org.hk Artists: Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Tomie Ohtake, and Tang Chang, Curators: Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero My first reaction upon entering the show was: Finally a dignified display of Robert Motherwell’s works! This exclamation came mainly as a reaction to the previous ‘home’ of these…
Seoul, November 27 – January 31, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art Suki Seokyeong Kang 강서경 (, Eve Kwak 곽이브, MeeNa Park 박미나, Rahm Parc 박아람, Junghae Park 박정혜, Kyungho Baek 백경호, Nakhee Sung 성낙희, Hyangro Yoon 윤향로, Seungean Cha 차승언, Seung-Hye Hong 홍승혜 Without directly stating it, it seems that the exhibition focuses on identifying…
Seoul, December 3 – 22, 2015, http://kmufineart.com As the title says, this was the graduation exhibition of the Kookmin University Fine Arts Department. Each student received a roughly equal space, a small art fair booth-like compartment in which s/he presented his/her works. There has been a lot of paintings, many of them trying to develop…
Seoul, November 28 – December 9, 2015, http://www.ssdgongjang.com/ https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 As a sequel to Part 1 at Space Ba421 where Shin Kiwoun presented the blueprints for the forthcoming show, this show presented the finished artworks created according to the blueprints.
Seoul, November 12 – December 13, 2015, http://www.altpool.org/ As it is usual in Art Space Pool, the exhibition was research-based and minutely installed up to the smallest detail. The contents revolved around the ‘silent victims’ on the fringes of history, like soldiers, massacre victims, etc. This macabre topic, represented mainly in images, has been mixed…
Seoul, December 3, 2015 – February 14, 2015, http://plateau.or.kr I have been a fan of Lim Minouk since I saw the “S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus” video in a group exhibition in Ilmin Museum a couple of years ago. It was a work which stood out among many others. I read through some of her catalogues, and…
Seoul, December 1, 2015 – March 27, 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr I believe William Kentridge does not need much introduction. He is a very well known South Aftrican contemporary artist, which has by now produced few decades worth of artworks, ranging from drawing to his brand-style hand drawn stop motion animation, to theater productions and large scale…
Seoul, December 4 – 17, 2015, http://igong.org/ i-Gong is a small media art space in Seoul Hongdae district. The exhibition focused on the topic of the domestic and how the domestic space is experienced by its inhabitants. There have been video interviews with family members talking about different places in the house, as well as…