First solo show in 12 years at Gallery Hyundai includes new moon series

“The bottle cap sculpture ‘New World Symphony’ is quite large in scale, which is almost a museum scale and was created for the exhibition at the gallery. As for the wooden reliefs, the artist worked on the series in the 1990s but recently started it again -- the wooden panel piece ‘of Realities and Illusion’ was created this year and is being shown for the first time,” Kaiah Lee, a director at Ba...

A South Korean ancient history book, traditional women's poetry and records of a massive oil spill have been added to the regional list of the UNESCO Memory of the World program. The Cultural Heritage Administration said "Samguk-yusa" (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) and two other candidates from the country were granted the status during a general meeting of the UNESCO Memory of the World Co...

The gallery also represents Korean artist Lee Bae whose solo show “Souffle d’Encre” is taking place at Perrotin Shanghai throughout Dec. 17. The artworks comprise the artist’s recent large drawings from the Brushstroke series that feature charcoal, along with three sculptures that may signal the artist’s future artistic practice. “Without enough budget to buy paint, Lee Bae came upon a sack of b...

The awards ceremony was held along with the opening ceremony for the exhibition at the convention center at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Visitors can also look around handcrafted products at an open market for crafts workers and sales booths introducing regional collections from 16 cities and provinces.

One of the few self-portraits by German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) will be auctioned by the German auction house Grisebach in Berlin on Dec. 1. The artist, who lived through the two world wars, is known as one of the most influential artists of the time. “Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa” is a self-portrait painted in 1943 and has been privately owned since its creation. Beckmann took refuge in Hol...

Art collectors in South Korea have largely remained reluctant to share their collections as collecting art pieces has long been considered a niche for the wealthy. This reluctance, however, has been gradually changing, especially among younger generations who are willing to share what they collect as well as wanting to learn about others. The newly opened exhibition space ABCollections caters to...

The deal is expected to be fully completed by the end of the year. “The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will later buy a quarter of the plot to build a museum to house the Lee Kun-hee collection. The rest of the plot will be turned into a park managed by the city government,” said an official from the city government. Is Lee Kun-hee Museum next? While some hope for the land to be turne...

Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art mulling space dedicated to Korean contemporary art

Meanwhile, Phillips will offer “Le Pere,” a painting by Marc Chagall, at Tuesday's New York evening sale of 20th Century and Contemporary Art. Estimated to sell for $6 million to $8 million, the piece is among the 15 works of art that the French government restituted to the rightful owners earlier this year as part of an ongoing effort to return works in its museums that were wrongfully seized by...

Park's new Ecriture painting was unveiled at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy, to coincide with the 59th Venice Biennale. The 2.6-meter-wide painting, “Ecriture No 190512-21” featuring pastel colors in his early pencil Ecriture style, took nearly three years to complete. The Venice exhibition runs through Nov. 22. By Park Yuna ( yunapark@heraldcorp.com )

The four-day event, which runs until Sunday, aims to enhance understanding and awareness of ASEAN culture and tourism and to provide an opportunity to appreciate the “uniqueness which derives from diversity,” said the center. The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the national tourism organizations of ASEAN countries. The ASEAN Week was first launched at Seoul Plaza ...

At Thaddaeus Ropac there is “Copperheads 1985/1989,” an exhibition of representative metal works by US artist Robert Rauschenberg’s Copperheads series created between 1985 and 1989. The first of Rauschenberg’s 15 metal series mark the artist’s early experiment with creating images directly on sheets of metal using silkscreen printing techniques, acrylic paint and tarnishing agents. The surfaces ...

The selected artist group Lost Air looked into political, social and cultural issues inspired by the underground music scene through their project “Rave Geometry.” Comprised of four artists -- Lee Woo-gyeong, Park Ju-yeong, Park Min-ju and Lee Da-young -- the artist collective collaborated with DJs, VJs and producers from the underground music scene. The essay film “Our, has never stopped” and th...

Participating in this year’s Singapore Biennale, which kicked off Oct. 16, Yang has won the 13th Benesse Prize with a set of two moving sculptures, named “The Hybrid Intermediates -- Flourishing Electrophorus Duo.” The biennale runs until March 19, 2023. Her other works are currently on display at the “Museum in Motion” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, in Belgium, and the “M...