K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《Deleted World: Dele’s Room》, 2024.04.01 – 2024.04.07, Rainbow Cube
Deleted World is an AI music film that unfolds by following the sounds of an android nun named Dele (@dele.world). Dele’s voice is generated through the learning of bodily sounds that are processed as errors. Borrowing this voice, the work produces inflammations that are damp, itchy, and unwelcome.
2024.04.01
Articles
[Critique] Believing is Seeing
This may come off as a silly question, considering IM Youngzoo majored in painting. Although it might sound redundant, this question is pertinent to my inquiry of whether or not the medium of painting is conducive to tackling themes in IM’s oeuvre. From her early works, IM consistently addresses how a belief system is formed and embodies the precarious state between truth a
2017
Exhibitions
《Won-Kyung》, 2012.11.15 – 2012.12.22, DOOSAN Gallery New York
DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of Korea-based painter Sejin Park’s 《Won-Kyung》, from November 15 to December 15, 2012. The exhibition features Park’s paintings full of emotion reflecting her dedicated devotion of expressing one’s landscape of mind using delicate brush strokes and sensitive colors.
2012.11.15
Articles
[Analysis] Beyond the Value of Mere Dwelling
Jaeho Jung’s Hoehyeon-dong Memorial depicts the Hoehyeon Demonstration Apartment, and through its portrayal of the apartment building, the work allows viewers to sense the presence of the people who actually live in the apartment beyond the image itself.
2022.02.13
Articles
[Essay] Nonchalantly
Reminiscent of Walter Benjamin, who once attempted to write a text with only quotations, Chung Heesung’s new project is based entirely on the words and works of other artists. Composed of Chung’s images and interviews with twenty-five artists, this work recalls the somewhat familiar method of compiling contemporaneous ideas from an array of astute minds. In response, I’ve also decided to borrow the collage format by writing a few letters to the “artist of today.”
2020
Articles
[Critique] ‘L’episteme of Painting’ as Text
Lee Inhyeon’s painting practice—completing an extremely concise pictorial field on unprimed canvas with monochrome oil paint, centered on bleeding effects and tonal gradation (階調)—has continued for more than a decade under the single title, ‘L’episteme of Painting’.
2006
Articles
[Review] Empty Morph
The Page Gallery’s group exhibition 《Soh(素)_empty morph》, featuring Kim Tschoon Su, Shin Soohyeok, and Cheon Kwangyup, presents works by three artists who pursue a shared process of “returning to a single origin (素) through non-purposiveness and the dreaming of the body.”
2021
