In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has published North Korea and South Korea, books that capture the two drastically different realities of the divided peninsula.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments
6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A
Journey to North and South Korea
with Mark Edward Harris
Photographer
The exhibition features the etchings and woodblock prints produced by five artists from abroad: Kawase Hasui (1883–1957, Japan), Paul Jacoulet (1896–1960, France), Elizabeth Keith (1887–1956, Scotland), Lilian May Miller (1895–1943, America) and Willy Seiler (1903–Unknown, Germany) at the turn of twentieth century. The exhibit presents the redefining of the beauty of Korea through people, things, and scenes that charmed artists from different cultures.
June 20– August 31, 2013
Gallery Opening
Thursday, June 20, 2013
6 PM
The Korea Society
Gallery Open Daily, M-F, 10 AM-5 PM
Experience the captivating imagery in this collection of photographs by some of the pioneers of modern Korean photography. The fifty-four photographs showcase the first generation of Korean realists who played a pivotal role in the development and enrichment of Korean photography as an art form. The exhibition marks the first time these original black and white photographs have been mounted in the United States and fills a chasm not only in the visual archive of modern Korean photography but also in the visual vernacular of the period.
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Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992 reveals everyday life through exuberant visual diversity and documents anthropologically important aspects of Korea’s nearly forgotten recent past. The photographs offer a counter-narrative of ordinary lives during this turbulent period of Korean history. These photographs are documentary, but at the same time aesthetically charged, illustrating and illuminating the traces and trails of Korean life as seen through Korean eyes.
The selected photographs are on loan from one of the first public photography museums in Korea, Dong-Gang Museum of Photography, and from several of the photographers and their estates. The thirteen photographers represented in the exhibition are Koo Wangsam, Lim Eungsik, Lee Haesun, Lee Hyungrok, Kim Hanyong, Han Youngsoo, Chung Bumtae, Choi Minsik, Joo Myungduk, Hong Suntae, Yuk Myungshim, Kim Kichan, and Kim Soonam.
This exhibition is the product of a joint effort between The Korea Society and an independent curator, Chang Jae Lee. Traces of Life will be on view in the Korea Society Gallery from September 19 through January 31, 2013. This exhibition, along with other exhibitions created by The Korea Society, is available for loan to universities and museums and other qualifying institutions in the United States. Please click below for booking information or contact Jinyoung Jin.
September 19-January 31, 2013
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
Catalogue Available:
Edited by Chang Jae Lee
Published by Noonbit Publishing Co., September 2012
pp. 136 (in English 110 pp. including 54 plates, in Korean 26 pp.)
Foreword by Jinyoung Jin (TKS Gallery Director), introduction by David R. McCann (Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University), contributing essay by Sun Il (Curator of the Seoul National University Museum), and curatorial essay and afterword by Chang Jae Lee (Curator of Traces of Life).
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue@57th Street
In celebration of Asia Week New York, acclaimed curator Jane Portal will speak at The Korea Society to introduce the newly renovated Korean Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which includes ceramics, metalwork, and paintings from the Bronze Age to the 20th century.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments
6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A
Korean Art at MFA Boston
with Jane Portal
Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
The exhibition features internationally recognized Korean textile artist Chunghie Lee’s contemporary Bojagi works. Once commonly employed in everyday life for carrying, covering and storing objects, Bojagi now has become one of the most widely recognized and appreciated of all traditional Korean textile arts. Chunghie Lee’s work integrates traditional Bojagi motifs into innovative designs with vivid color compositions. Evoking the artistic inspiration of the countless anonymous women who made Bojagi through the ages, Lee’s art retains a meaningful link to the past. Lee has been teaching at Rhode Island School of Design since 1999 and her works are in permanent collections in numerous museums, including Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K. and the Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA.
March 14 – May 31, 2013
Gallery Opening
Thursday, March 14, 2013
6:30 PM
The Korea Society
Gallery Open Daily, M-F, 10 AM-5 PM
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
Dr. David R. McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University, reveals the unique correlation between 20th century Korean photographs and modern Korean poetry through examples from Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes 1945-1992, the current exhibition at The Korea Society Gallery.
Friday, November 9, 2012
6:30 PM
Traces of Life interpreted through Korean Poetry
with David McCann
Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University
Christopher Phillips, Curator of International Center of Photography, speaks about the explosive development of Korean photography in the late twentieth century. This talk is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes 1945-1992.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
6:30 PM
Recent Directions in Korean Photography: The New Internationalism
with Christopher Phillips
Curator of International Center of Photography
Experience the captivating imagery in this collection of photographs by some of the pioneers of modern Korean photography. The fifty-four photographs showcase the first generation of Korean realists who played a pivotal role in the development and enrichment of Korean photography as an art form. The exhibition marks the first time these original black and white photographs have been mounted in the United States and fills a chasm not only in the visual archive of modern Korean photography but also in the visual vernacular of the period.
Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992 reveals everyday life through exuberant visual diversity and documents anthropologically important aspects of Korea’s nearly forgotten recent past. The photographs offer a counter-narrative of ordinary lives during this turbulent period of Korean history. These photographs are documentary, but at the same time aesthetically charged, illustrating and illuminating the traces and trails of Korean life as seen through Korean eyes.
The selected photographs are on loan from one of the first public photography museums in Korea, Dong-Gang Museum of Photography, and from several of the photographers and their estates. The thirteen photographers represented in the exhibition are Koo Wangsam, Lim Eungsik, Lee Haesun, Lee Hyungrok, Kim Hanyong, Han Youngsoo, Chung Bumtae, Choi Minsik, Joo Myungduk, Hong Suntae, Yuk Myungshim, Kim Kichan, and Kim Soonam.
This exhibition is the product of a joint effort between The Korea Society and an independent curator, Chang Jae Lee. Traces of Life will be on view in the Korea Society Gallery from September 19 through December 7, 2012. This exhibition, along with other exhibitions created by The Korea Society, is available for loan to universities and museums and other qualifying institutions in the United States. Please click below for booking information or contact Jinyoung Jin.
September 19-December 7, 2012
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
Catalog Available:
Edited by Chang Jae Lee
Published by Noonbit Publishing Co., September 2012
pp. 136 (in English 110 pp. including 54 plates, in Korean 26 pp.)
Foreword by Jinyoung Jin (TKS Gallery Director), introduction by David R. McCann (Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University), contributing essay by Sun Il (Curator of the Seoul National University Museum), and curatorial essay and afterword by Chang Jae Lee (Curator of Traces of Life).
Feast or Famine features 23 original posters from the Katharina Zellweger Collection. Zellweger collected over 100 posters during her tenure as the director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation program in Pyongyang from 2006 to 2011. This selection, rarely seen outside of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, centers around issues related to agriculture, animal husbandry, and food production. Created for a domestic audience and produced by government-run studios, the posters were designed to rally the population behind nationally promoted, food-related projects. The posters are original, hand-painted watercolors created to be copied and distributed in public campaigns.
Gallery Talk: Collecting Art in North Korea
by Katharina Zellweger
What do foreigners residing in Pyongyang do when they are not at work? During the five years Katharina Zellweger spent in North Korea (2006 – 2011), she was asked the question many times. For her, many Saturday afternoons were spent scouting for North Korean propaganda posters on a wide variety of topics, from agricultural to public health, politics or culture. In North Korea, these posters are commonly displayed on billboards and panels throughout the country similar to advertising in the industrialized world, or, depending on the message, distributed to schools, factories, cooperative farms, and offices.
Following the gallery opening, Zellweger will discuss her experiences collecting poster art in North Korea and talk about some of the projects and campaigns they represent.
In conjunction with the gallery exhibition ASH: Contemporary Korean Art & Ceramics, artist Park Jihyun speaks to the creative process and his technique of burning incense onto rice paper. Park also will discuss his professional and personal exploration of both traditional and contemporary cultures.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
5 PM
Asia Week 2012 Gallery Talk with Artist Park Jihyun
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
