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In the midst of this upheaval, young artists pursued radical projects. They had been born during the Japanese occupation and lived through the Korean War; some looked to the past, taking inspiration from Korean folk forms. They forged collectives, holding shows, translating art texts from abroad (travel was restricted) and staging performances along rivers and in theaters. Their genre-defying efforts have come to be categorized as “silheom misul,” experimental art. (Organized with Kang Soojung, a senior curator at Seoul’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, or MMCA, the show travels to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Feb.
Persons: Kim Kulim, Kyung, Kang Soojung Organizations: Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim, National Museum of Modern, Art, Hammer Museum Locations: South Korea, Seoul, New York, Korea, Los Angeles
“It feels like you’re looking inside the guts of a dragon, or like something that you don’t actually want to see. They do not quite belong to this world, you sense, and they threaten to malfunction or become sentient at any second. Textiles dipped in liquid clay will hang on its interior walls. It may be warm in there, thanks to a steam machine, which will keep her clay humid. “I like it to be a bit unpleasant,” she said, “so that it feels like it’s actually getting onto you.”
Persons: , Cecilia Alemani, Gary Carrion, Murayari, Madeline Weisburg, Lee, it’s Locations: New York, Venice
Late one April night, the artist Liao Wen was in her studio in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, listing off the many instruments that she uses to make her astonishing art. “These are my chisels,” she said in a video interview, panning the camera about. “Chisels, chisels, chisels. They are alluring and frightening, psychologically fraught, and they have helped make her, at 29, “one of China’s most innovative young women artists,” as Wang Chunchen, the deputy director of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (C.A.F.A.) Art Museum in Beijing, and the curator-critic Jia Qianfan put it last year in Art in America magazine.
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