The Postman is a Genius
dal 27/8/2003 al 18/10/2003
Segnalato da
Nederlands Instituut Montevideo/Time Based Arts
27/8/2003
The Postman is a Genius
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
The exhibition reveals how South Korean artists experience life in one of the largest cities of the world, Seoul. In their work they let us see experiences and fantasies about their life in a city with 12 million inhabitants.
Opening August 28, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Participating artists: Flyingcity, Im Heung-soon, Jo Seub, Koh Seung Wook, Park Hwa Young and Rhii Jewyo
The exhibition The Postman is a Genius: Experience and Imagination in Seoul reveals how South Korean artists experience life in one of the largest cities of
the world, Seoul.
In their work they let us see experiences and fantasies about
their life in a city with 12 million inhabitants. The artists are between 30 and
35 years of age, and the background of this generation has been shaped by the
immense political and economic changes, including urbanization, that have taken
place in Seoul over the last decades.
The need to visualize the consequences of
these changes is the motivation for these artists. They not only show us how
Seoul looks, but also raise the question of what has been forgotten and
repressed during the process of change in the past decades. With their work they
lodge a protest against what has been lost.
Their approach to that problem is
predominately light and amusing, but the undertones are melancholic and serious.
The artists have made use of diverse media. Their works vary from video filmed
in documentary style to fantasy films, from photography to drawings. There are
also cardboard models of an ideal city made by children under the guidance of
the artists' group Flyingcity.
An extra video program goes further into how this city is visualized in
contemporary South Korean video art. Artists in this program are Bae Young-Hwan,
Hoi Jung-Kwa, Kim Beom, Kim Ji-Hyun, Lim Minouk & Fréderic Michon, Mixrice, Park
Hye-Sung and Park Se-Jin.
The Postman is a Genius is the outcome of collective organization by The
Netherlands Media Art Institute and the Marronnier Art Center (MAC) of the
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul. The exhibition is the result of a
collaboration between Mark Kremer, guest curator at the Netherlands Media Art
Institute, and Beck Jee-Sook, curator of the MAC. The exhibition takes place as
part of Facing : Korea, a set of four exhibitions of Korean artists, opening
simultaneously on August 28 at four Amsterdam institutions: De Appel, Foam,
Canvas International Art and the Netherlands Media Art Institute.
Note for the press: Curators and artists are available a week before the
opening. Please contact us if you wish to arrange interviews.
Image: Im Heung Soon, Basement, My Love/ Video/ 17min./ 2000
For more information / visual materials: Marieke Istha (communications) T +31
(0)20 623 7101 E
Marieke Istha
Communication
Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T +31 20 6237101
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