Hong Kong, September 18 – October 17, 2015, Hong Kong, https://www.facebook.com/Hanart.TZ.Gallery Curator: Valerie C. Doran. Hanart TZ Gallery recently focused mainly on Chinese ink painting, plus some western-style paintings by artists of greater China origins. A video-art exhibition of Yuan Goang Ming, one of the founders of Taiwanese video was quite a surprising turn of…
Gyeonggi-do, Paju-si, September 5 – 29, 2015, http://mimesisart.co.kr/mimesis-art-museum/ The visit to this museum has been shaped by the long way it took to get there. I have heard some good words about Paju Book city, and I was curious about the place as well as about the museum. I can confirm that there is indeed…
Seoul, September 25 – November 15, 2015, http://www.museum.go.kr The temporary exhibition of Early Buddhist Sculpture was very welcoming and easy to navigate. It was just the right size to spend between half an hour (running through) to two hours (taking careful looks). It was logically structured along a simple narrative from early origins of Buddhism…
Hong Kong, September 18 – October 13, 2015, http://www.pearllam.com An Italian artist like Pino Pinelli, now in his 70’s, has lived through a lot. The press release mentioned a “deep influence by the Zero Group” but he was not part of them. The body of work seems to revolve around monochrome “paintings” that change their…
Hong Kong, September 17 – October 10, 2015, http://www.leogallery.com.cn Alec von Bargen is an actor-turned photographer. His acting experience seeps through into his photographic work, which is always centered on human individuals, their expressions and feelings. Formally, works are either specific portraits of anonymous individuals, or photographs of more generic silhouettes that metaphorically stand for…
Hong Kong, September 1 – October 5, 2015, http://www.galeriehuit.com.hk Fujimura is an artist in his 50’s, Japanese, living in the U.S. Works seem to be made by applying ink or dry pigment onto paper mounted on a stretched canvas. Beautiful works, somewhere between abstract expressionism and Asian ink painting. Suitable for any living room or…
Seoul, August 28 – October 25, 2015, http://ilmin.org/ Cho Duck Hyun’s main skill is the ability to minutely copy photographs as graphite pencil drawings on large canvases covered with Korean mulberry paper. The photos are reproduced in black and white, and the originals are also usually black and white vintage photographs. This technique that produced…
Seoul, September 16 – 30, 2015, http://www.ujungartcenter.com/ An exhibition of paintings. All seem to be based on old black and white photographs, but I did not know why, so I assume it is the preferred period in which the artist would like to live if she could choose. The element of fascination with the past…
Seoul, September 16 – December 15, 2015, https://www.cccc.or.kr/, http://www.aptinstitute.org Jung Ju An, Je Baak, Sunghun Choi & Sunmin Park, RohwaJeong, Sojung Jun, Lee Nam Lee, Wan Lee, Yongseok Oh, Junebum Park, Ho Yeol Ryu, Shin Kiwoun, Yangachi, Hyun Mi Yoo The Creative Center for Convergence Culture is located in Seoul’s Digital Media City, a purpose-built…
Seoul, August 19 – September 19, 2015 http://www.songeunartspace.org As the title suggested, this was the second part of the show, and indeed it was a continuation of part one. Overall it seemed that this two-part exhibition tried to give justice to each and every artist SongEun has cooperated with in the last 5 years. There…