Category Archives: Artwork

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

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 possibility and hope, utopian…

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

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, abstraction has been prepared…

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

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 Museum of Modern and…

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

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 painting, installation, video, and…

Byung Ki Kim: Segmentation of Senses, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

National Museum of Modern Art is a “logical and intelligent as an art theorist, charging by nature (大戰) after a while sensitive to trends information on Western art gadadeumeo modern formative consciousness and logic advocated strongly abstract aesthetic in the early Korea contemporary art form.” (Lee Gu-yeol, 1990) The works…