May 2011
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Gyeongbukgung Palace Always a Draw
Every year it seems I have some reason, be it a visitor a new friend or other, that has me going back to Gyeongbokgung Palace. This year it was a couple family visitors and I was happily surprised when I scoured the internet for anything interesting and fun and found that the palaces in Seoul are offering a traditional music/dance series throughout the spring and summer and just our luck the one...
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bill07amy09 asked: Hi! It's me. I just met you and your bf today in the furniture shop! It is so amazing and such a small world, i have never thought that I could accidently meet you in that furniture shop. Seoul is that big! Did you finally got to buy all the furniture :D
It was really nice to meet you and your bf. Pls give me the address of the location where ESD is playing. I would definetely...
It was really nice to meet you and your bf. Pls give me the address of the location where ESD is playing. I would definetely...
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Brain Factory: Jee Young Lee, Stage of Mind
A very small, but welcoming, gallery the Brain Factory surprised me on my walk today. Taking a different route than usual, I decided to see what was on the left side of Gyeongbukgung rather than the ever busier Anguk, on the right side. Wondering if there were just as many galleries I made my way and here I came upon the Brain Factory. A group of high school girls were inside taking photos...
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Airan Kang: The Luminous Poem
Gallery Simon is hosting Airan Kang’s solo exhibition The Luminous Poem. The exhibition showcases her well known book shaped objects made of plastic and LED lights. These works have become her trademark since she started making them in 1997. As you walk along the shelves looking at the books you’ll recognize most if not all of the well known titles she has duplicated. Though the...
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Space Study at the new Plateau
Originally established as the Rodin Gallery in 1999, the newly named Plateau Gallery has reopened after a three year absence from the art scene here in Seoul. The gallery focuses on contemporary art “dedicated to introducing the newest experiments and significant achievements in the field”. Run by the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art I had high expectations for what I would find here. To...
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Lotus Lantern Street Festival Galore
Along with the spectacular parade mentioned before is the Buddhist street festival which is also a must. This year I was on the ball a month early and got on the Lotus Lantern Festival website and registered to be one of the 200ish people to make one of the eight sided lanterns for free. In years previous I never got on early enough to register and ended up making one of the mini ones, of which...
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100,000 Lotus Lanterns
Arriving early to find stacks of chairs ready to be taken lining the street, barriers already set up one lane into the road and staff awaiting the cops to block traffic at the end of the road to start setting up just built the anticipation. My friend and I grabbed some chairs forty-five minutes prior to the set start time and placed ourselves just behind the ropes to get the best seats in the...
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HiSeoul Festival: Homing Instinct
Eleven artists from overseas, five local artists and one project team worked together this year to create the installation art for the Cheonggyecheon part of the HiSeoul Festival under the theme of “Homing Instinct”. The instinct for salmon to go upstream to where they were born to breed each year, “is the energy for permanent life that makes us live dynamic and positive lives...
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Pretty Powerful and Pretty Colorful!
Gallery Sun contemporary caught my eye during the Anguk wander the other day with its big front window showcasing a few works by artist Koh Sang Woo just asking me to walk in the door. So, I did. On the first floor the few works seem to showcase a nude neon painted woman and wondering how the effect was captured I followed the signs out the back door and up the staircase to the second floor...
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Conflating Spaces by Byoung Ok Min
Wandering in Anguk always surprises me. Around every corner is another gallery and though I tend to take the same route as usual and add one more street the exhibitions are always changing so there’s always something to see. Today, after stopping into a gallery that was in the setting up process and talking with the owner about any other galleries he would suggest I ended up at Hakgojae...
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Television 12: Gallery AND Cafe
As I said in an earlier post, I decided to find those galleries in Hongdae that I’d been neglecting the past few months due to the overwhelmingness of art in the cafes and streets of Hongdae as it is. Television 12 is the best of both worlds with a gallery on the second floor and a cafe on the first filled with a plethora of art itself. Down on the rowdier end of Hongdae, but tucked just...
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April 2011
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Alternative Space Loop: Henkel InnoART 2011
Sometimes I forget how much art there is in my backyard, aka Hongdae. I guess since most of the art tends to be in the many cafes scattered throughout the area I don’t take the time to hit the galleries that actually exist.
The Alternative Space Loop is hosting the Henkel InnoART project until Wednesday, May 5, 2011. Even if you miss it the space is nice and on a side of Hongdae...
