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[Critique] “Why My Sculpture Is Pictorial”
The wooden sculptural works of his that I remember have rough surfaces that are neither sufficiently polished nor fully colored. The sculptural forms, which look as if they have been summoned from a tree trunk standing in the ground with a sincere gaze, support a three-dimensional sense that rotates in the verticality of a cylinder.
2022.03.04
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Artist Joo Hyeongjoon: Reinterpreting Reality Reflected in the Unconscious through East Asian Painting
Joo Hyeongjoon (b. 1988) has developed a body of work that unfolds the world of the unconscious as it appears in dreams, grounded in the traditional materials of paper, brush, and ink. Reinterpreting Eastern philosophy and traditional media through a contemporary lens, the artist continuously experiments with ways of recording “emptiness” (yeobaek) and imagined narratives as perceived from the perspective of modern life.
2025.11.17
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[Essay] Artist Hong Kyoungtack Paints Desires in Splendid Colors and Patterns
Aside from the recent peak, South Korea has gone through several art market booms in the past. The boom in the 2000s was an important time for the Korean art market, as it went through structure diversification with new art fairs and auction houses opening and many galleries seeking to expand their activities outside the country.
2022.08.15
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[Culture] Venice Biennale
A biennale refers to an international art exhibition held every two years. Since the establishment of the Venice Biennale in 1895, more than a century has passed, and today over one hundred biennales
2003.06.09
