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Rem Koolhaas’s Prada Transformer – Brilliant & odd

Architecture / 4 minutes of reading

OMA – Prada Transformer, 2009, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, South Korea What was the Prada Transformer? The Prada Transformer is both brilliant and odd. Many people debate what it is between a fashion show stage, movie theater, or exhibition space. Well, it is all of them plus a film festival. The beauty of this structure is …

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Louise Bourgeois – Maman (Spider), 1999, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, 2018

Louise Bourgeois’s iconic spider Maman – Everything you need to know

Sculpture / 8 minutes of reading

Louise Bourgeois’ art has always been inspired by her upbringing and childhood. As an artist, Bourgeois remained at the forefront of successive new developments for over six decades that she had been in the industry, and she always did so in her own powerful and inventively ingenious terms. In 1982, at the age …

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Why did Nam June Paik create his TV garden?

Sculpture / 3 minutes of reading

Why is Nam June Paik important? No one would think televisions are artistic under normal circumstances. Handy, yes. Useful, quite so. Nam June Paik, however, managed to put television sets in circumstances where he reveals their artistry. The celebrated artist is regarded as the father of video art and has used manipulated television sets, broadcasted …

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Jaehyo Lee (이재효) & his massive organic sculptures – Our top 10

Sculpture / 2 minutes of reading

Jaehyo Lee (b. 1965, Hapchen, South Korea) graduated in 1992 with a BFA from the Hong-Ik University in Seoul. Combining distinct traces of Land Art, Arte Povera and Minimalism Lee´s works cast a questioning eye over the roots of form, its function and its role within the natural world. Work between modern art and …

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Yeesookyung’s ceramic vases: Imperfection & surprising results

Ceramics, Sculpture / 3 minutes of reading

Translated Vase Yeesookyung is a South Korean artist living in Seoul. She is known for her complex and enchanting ceramic designs and sculptures. The Translated series series, like many of her works, is made up of shards and fragments of broken ceramic pieces that are carefully pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. Yeesookyung created her …

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Gimhongsok mocks Jeff Koons highest priced work using garbage bags

Sculpture / 2 minutes of reading

This Canine Construction by South Korean artist, Gimhongsok is one that anyone would fall in love with, coupled with the enigmatic quality it has. This work is the sculpture of a dog and remains one of the artist’s most well-known works in recent times. The creation involved using garbage bags, balloons, cardboard boxes, all …

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Meekyoung Shin’s beautiful sculptures – Made entirely from soap

Sculpture / 2 minutes of reading

About Meekyoung Shin Meekyoung Shin, a South Korean sculptor, became popular for her Translation series, using soap as her medium of art. Trained in the tradition of European sculpture, her statuettes are made factoring in the Western and Eastern styles of relief. Her works are usually made from palm oil, a vegetarian soap. Her technique …

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Photographer Thomas Struth visits both North & South Korea

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Struth’s trips to Korea In March 2007, Thomas Struth went on a first trip to South Korea. He spent time in the two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, as well as visiting religious and cultural sites, important landscapes and shipyards. At the vast DSME shipyard on Geoje Island, one of the largest in the …

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Jazoo Yang (양 자주) created these uncommon murals in South Korea

Painting, Graffiti, Street Art / 4 minutes of reading

A selection of works by the Korean artist

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