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 | | This summer, the art people in the world go for Venice. The reason is because the 54th Venice Biennale just started (June 4th ~ November 27th). Bice Cruiger, a Swiss art historian and curator, took the general direction of this year Venice Biennale, and planed the main exhibition under the title 'LLUMInations' Boasting huger size than ever before, this year Golden lion for Best National Participation was awarded the German pavilion, which reproduced the late Christoph Schlingensies last performance stage, and the Golden Lion was awarded to Christian Marclay, an American artist, among the artists participating in the 'LLUMinations' Exhibition. Since its foundation in 1895, the Venice Biennale has fully taken the role as 'Contem-porary Art' Power Plant producing numerous issues and discourses during over 100 years. This year, what a new topographical map does the Venice Biennale as the biggest international art event draw? The magazine 'art' delivers the freshest news from the Venice Biennale site. |
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Lights of Venice, ILLUMInations Bog-gi Kim
COVER STORY TERESITA FERNANDEZ
Landscape of the Natural Miracle or Mirage Sae-mi Kim
ART MARKET THE 10TH KOREA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR
Achievements and Tasks of the 10 Years Jae-seok Kim
Australia Opened Artistic Exchange Bog-gi Kim
FEATURE THE 54TH VENICE BIENNALE
Pictorial Research on LLUMInations Editorial Department
Back From Discourse toward Aura Yong-woo Lee
Pictorial Research on National Pavilions Editorial Department Summarized Information of 24 National Pavilions Editorial Department Art People Tells about Venice Norio Sugawara, Hans D. Christ, Sook-kyung Lee, Henk Slager
WORLD ART THE 12TH ELEKTRA
ELEKTRA Extracts the Sixth Sense Kyoung-yun Ho
ARTIST INTERVIEW TIM EITEL
‘Protagonist of Existence Sae-mi Kim
ART NEWS
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ARTIST ARCHIVE KOREA & AUSTRALIA
Jarek Wojcik_Noel Mckenna_Paula Paul_Josie Kunoth Petyarre Robert Owen_Ben Quilty_Idris Murphy_Cho Choon ja_Jung Hyang Kim_Hwang Sookyung_Lee Myungho_Lee Youngbin
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| |  |  | | | The critical discourses on the dialectical relations between the center and locality are still in the progress of evolution despite the intense studies and practices for a long time. For example, we can see that the critical theories of post modernism, which has been listing out all the declining of the truth, flourishing discourses, and the deconstruction and peripherals of the center, have become very small in the global blockbuster exhibition sites like Venice Biennale. We can realize how the theoretical depictions are worthless in real life, and how the value of the knowledge that comes from references in libraries are far from grasping the sense of reality. These facts become prominent when we look at the thematic consciousness of this year's Venice Biennale, and the geopolitical categories of the invited artists, as well as the Eurocentric approaches. More.. |  |  | | | Teresita Fernandez, known for her work on installation art based on a unique understanding of the material is holding a private exhibition in 313 Art Project, Seoul, Korea from 20th September to 29th October. Her work is famous for a nature-inspired, nature-replicating characteristics. Teresita's work, with a vast interest in the field of visual perception of man and the psychology of sight begins with the true form of nature and a unique imagination branching from it. She is known mainly for her large-scale installation pieces describing her impression on nature. She replicates the impression of the primal nature such as light, water, fire and sunlight through minimalistic expressionism and nudges the spectators to build their own fantasy and reality by visualizing time. More.. |  |  | | | This year, Korea International Art Fair marks the fair's 10th anniversary. Inaugurated since 2002 under the auspice of Galleries Association of Korea, KIAF has given influential significance as a leading international art fair in Asia dominating the autumn market. KIAF 2011 will showcase 192 galleries from 17 countries from 22-26th of September in COEX. Especially, there are 17 prominent Australian galleries promoting the excellence in originality of Australian contemporary art as the Guest country of honor. More.. |
| |  |  | | | As one of the few artists from West Germany making up the New Leipzig school predominated by artists from the East, Tim Eitel has produced works that are firmly based in the East-German tradition of figurative paintings, yet with an emphasis on cerebral aspects often found in abstract works. From September 2 through October 23, 2011, Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul will for the first time in Asia hold an exhibition exclusively dedicated to his works. The title of the exhibition, The Placeholders, refers to the traces in given places or contexts left absent by their protagonists. More.. |  |  | | | On July, 2009, the show room of Phillips de Pury & Company auction house locating on the 2nd floor of Saatchi Gallery tightly exhibited 31 Korean contemporary artists‘s works. The place was the KOREAN EYE's first exhibition site. The KOREAN EYE is an annual exhibition introducing Korean contemporary artists and their works on its main stage of Saatch Gallery, the center of Britain contemporary Art. More.. |  |  | | | The 3rd Singapore Biennale:Open House 13. March ~ 15. May 4 venues incl. Singapore Art Museum Featuring over 150 works by 63 artists from 30 countries, SB2011 is led by Artistic Director Matthew Ngui and curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith who focus on artistic process relating it to the urban spaces. The title Open House suggests the crossing of thresholds between public and private, where boundaries and borders are made permeable. SB2011 "Open House" is presented across four exhibition venues. Not only museum buildings such as The Singa-pore Art Museum and The National Museum of Singapore, but also outer spaces likewise Old Kallang Airport and Marina Bay will show artworks that offer multiple perspectives. More.. |
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