Art Gemini Prize 2013: A promising debut
Just out of its first cycle, wherein it disbursed GBP 5,000* in awards to artists and photographers, the Art Gemini Prize 2013, announced in January 2014, demonstrates there really is no limit to opportunities for discovering, or rediscovering, new creative talent, writes SAJID RIZVI. The rediscovery, where an incentive such as the Art Gemini Prize acts as a conduit or facilitator, occurs when an artist spotted in a previous outing...
Art history on a slippery soap
Meekyoung Shin’s extraordinary works in soap reappear in a new selling exhibition 26 September-8 November 2013 at London’s Sumarria Lunn Gallery, writes SAJID RIZVI. Seen earlier at the London Korean Cultural Centre (KCCUK) and other venues, Shin’s representations of antique Chinese vases — and some famous European sculptures — reference an important if rather embarrassing phase in art history, when...
History, Language and Culture in Korea: An Update
AKSE, the Association of Korean Studies in Europe, marked its twentieth conference in London (4-8 April, 2001) with the publication of this multidisciplinary volume compiled by Youngsook Park and Jaehoon Yeon, writes SAJID RIZVI. “At the start of a new millennium, there is a growing awareness of the importance of Korean studies and an increasing number of scholars in this field worldwide,” wrote Youngsook Pak, Secretary,...
History, Language and Culture in Korea: An Update
AKSE, the Association of Korean Studies in Europe, marked its twentieth conference in London (4-8 April, 2001) with the publication of this multidisciplinary volume compiled by Youngsook Park and Jaehoon Yeon, writes SAJID RIZVI. “At the start of a new millennium, there is a growing awareness of the importance of Korean studies and an increasing number of scholars in this field worldwide,” wrote Youngsook Pak, Secretary,...
Eemyun Kang
Eemyun Kang co-exhibited in The 38th Parallel exhibition, G-Spot, London, 26 November-16 December, 2008. Eemyun Kang’s wide and swirling brushstrokes in Skull, apparently subtitled or read as a hyphenated title, Skull-Fungal land, or Fungal Land Skull, invoke and invite the viewer to her mythical land of Fungal Land, an amorphous and no doubt mysterious territory as much of the imagination as potentially of a yet undefined real...