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…
Seoul, June 23 – November 1, 2015 (The Sound of Things) and September 1 – November 29, 2015 (Choi Jong Tae), http://mmca.go.kr “The Sound of Things” presented 30 or more years of Korean minimalist/nature-related art in the large circular exhibition space of MMCA Gwacheon and adjacent rooms. It was a comprehensive selection and very worthy…
Seoul, September 11 – December 12, 2015, http://hitecollection.com Artists: 강서경 (Suki Seokyeong Kang), 김영은 (Young Eun Kim), 로와정 (RohwaJeong), 박형지 (Hyungji Park), 이은우 (Eunu Lee), 정희승 (Heeseung Chung) Each of the works in this exhibition was special in its own way, but as a whole it felt a bit bland. I am guessing it is a result of trying too…
Seoul, June 23 – October 18, 2015, Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr This show was a perfect match for Plateau’s space: Elmgreen & Dragset transformed Plateau into an airport-themed exhibition space, and in fact they only needed to add some small touches to complete the “transformation” of this space which in itself feels very similar to…
Seoul, September 8 – November 8, 2015 (December 13, 2015 for The Secret Kingdom_Wonderland) http://sema.seoul.go.kr Two artists of two different generations were confronted in “Title Match”. Gum Nuri is an artist in his 50’s or 60’s, a sculptor working in a kind of post-minimalist tradition. He makes use of found objects, or simple materials that…
Seoul, September 3 – 25, 2015, http://cakegallery.kr/ Cake Gallery is located in Dongmyo, Seoul, an area of flea markets and small metal work, wood work and second hand appliances shops. As such it seems to be a forerunner of a future gentrification project if it succeeds. Tucked away in the 6th floor of a building,…
Seoul, September 1 – 16, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 A small independent art space, located in an old market building in the Jogno (3ga) area of Seoul. During my visit there has been a show on display where I managed to translate the title using google, but I was not able to identify the artist’s name from…