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After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum

Originally posted 2019-10-08 20:20:19. In naming his fictional island ‘Utopia’, writer Thomas More conjoined the Greek words for ‘good place’ and ‘no place’ – a reminder that the idealised society he conjured was fundamentally phantasmal. And yet, the search and yearning for Utopia is a ceaseless humanist endeavor. Predicated on…

Korean Modern Art Collection: I had three eyes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung

Originally posted 2019-10-07 19:48:50. I had three eyes before the public in a different way, deeper than the general population or, explores the world of this artist as a child to see more. Since the Renaissance, the human eye has been privileged over other body organs as a bulwark of…

Jung Yung-yul Donated Works, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung

Originally posted 2019-10-07 18:44:58. Jung Yung-yul (1934 ~ 1988) is an artist who explored the identity of Korean abstract art through in-depth exploration of Korean subjects while developing experiments in various painting forms. The exhibition as an artist donation exhibition project on the occasion of the posthumous donation of jeongyoungryeol,…

The Matrix: Mathematics: Longing for the Pure and Abyss, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul

Originally posted 2019-10-07 17:15:05. Matrix: Mathematics: Longing for the Pure and Abyss is an exhibition about the mathematical attitude of contemporary artists living in a modernized mathematics society. In this exhibition, ‘Matrix’ was used as the title of the exhibition to symbolize the modernized world of mathematics that is controlled…

Technical Art of Photography, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Originally posted 2019-10-07 08:21:40. Photography has evolved from a photochemical technique that is completed through a machine called a camera. Painting technical characteristics without incurring the balls rather more realistic target by the record, the picture in the history back and forth between the ‘artistic expressiveness “and” archival capabilities of…

Harmony of Technology and Art & Architect Jong-sung Kimm, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Originally posted 2019-10-07 05:22:08. Harmony of Technology and Art & Architect Jong-sung Kimm Jeon is the first exhibition of architecture in the series of contemporary artists at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. View the works of the architect Jong-sung Kimm a pioneer in the development of Korea’s modern…

Reading contemporary art: new collection 2012, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Originally posted 2019-10-07 04:17:07. Reading contemporary art: new collection is one of the most important elements of the museum. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art has the mission of collecting and preserving collections to establish Korean art history and share contemporary art with the public. Therefore, the National…

Young Groping 2014, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Originally posted 2019-10-06 21:39:15. The Young Groping 2014 exhibition, hosted in National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon, which introduces the experimental spirit and original works of young artists. This exhibition, which is celebrating its 18th anniversary this year, has eight finalists selected in the fields of painting, Korean…