Kang Ik Joong’s Retrospective at POSCO Art Museum

A retrospective exhibition of Kang Ik Joong, translator and interpreter of Korean tradition, is happening now at the POSCO Art Museum. This artist received the special prize of Venice Biennale in 1997. He also created a work consisting of 65,000 small paintings. These paintings are in dialogue with Nam Jun Paik’s television tower “The more, the better” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was on exhibit two years ago. Now his works are represented in museums such as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, and the Leeum Samsung Art Museum, Seoul.

At this exhibition we can see his famous works, including image of moon jar, one of the most beautiful artifacts of Korean ceramic history, and see him rethinking traditional subjects of Korean art, sometimes in surprising sides. The museum space is small, but outside the POCSO Center is a great contemporary painting and sculpture collection, permanently displayed around and inside the building. It includes the works of Frank Stella and the most important Korean artists such as Nam-Jun Paik, Lee Ufan, Kim Jong Hak, etc.

Directions: Sollueng st, line 2, exit 1, or Samsong st., line 2, exit 4. Walk straight 7 min. POSCO Center, 2F.

Entrance fee: free

Thru September, 28

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