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This spring, art events involving multiple genres are being held in Korea. Festival Bo:m (directed by Sunghee Kim) is an annual multi-genre art festival that has been hosted for the past six years and continues to draw critical acclaim from audiences. When Festival Bo:m began in 2007 (under the title Spring Festival), it was geared toward introducing international trends of dance and theatre art to Korea. Over the years, the festival has developed its own character, and this year Bo:m tried to strike a balance between Western and non-Western art. During the festival’s three-week run, I viewed works by both Korean and foreign artists. One thing that stood out in my mind at the 2012 Festival Bo:m was the collaborative nature of many of the projects.

Another multi-genre art event, 'x_sound: John Cage, Nam June Paik and After', curated by Sohyun Ahn, Sooyoung Lee, and Chaeyoung Lee, is taking place at the Nam June Paik Art Center. The event includes not only works by Cage and Paik, but also works by present-day sound artists building on the experimentations of the original innovators. Here, the term 'x_sound' has a triple meaning: a sound that is unknown (x), that is ex-panded, and that ex-pels fixed ideas about sound. 'Sound' itself is a neutral and straightforward term when taken literally, but in the contemporary art context, it is a complex field with innumerable questions and discourses.

The final exhibition is Nayoungim + Gregory Maass's 'There is No Beer in Hawaii', curated by Sunyoung Oh at artclub 1563. The exhibition’s central theme is illusion. Its title comes from the German schlager song ‘Es Gibt Kein Bier auf Hawaii.’ Their works are based on a variety of art trends ranging from pop art to neo-dada, fluxus, conceptual art, and minimalism, but the artists display a free command of those art trends. Their works are familiar in the sense that they borrow ideas from art history, but at the same time, they are unfamiliar due to the neutral colors and materials used to create them.

https://aaa.org.hk/en/like-a-fever/like-a-fever/photologue-springs-wave-and-sound/type/notes

2019-12-09 경기일보 정자연 기자

경기도내 신진 시각 예술가들의 새로운 예술 창작품을 선보이는 전시가 이달 차례로 열린다.

경기문화재단은 올해 초 경기도에서 활발하게 활동하는 시각 예술가의 창작 활성화를 뒷받침하고자 <경기예술창작지원사업 시각예술분야 개인전 부문>에 ‘2019 주목할 만한 작가’ 4인 김나영 & 그레고리 마스, 문소현, 한석경, 홍기원을 선정했다. 시각예술 창작지원프로그램은 경기도 시각 예술가를 대상으로 창작지원금과 신작 발표 전시를 지원한다. 주목할 만한 성과를 보인 작가의 다음 연도 개인전을 후속 지원해 작가의 예술적 성장을 도모하는 게 목적이다.

김나영 & 그레고리 마스의 <그리시 코너(Greasy Corner)>는 오는 28일까지 갤러리 다함에서 열린다.

일상적 사물, 만화 속 캐릭터, 익살스러운 말장난, 대중문화 패러디 등을 소재로 불안정한 현시대를 위트 있게 표현하면서 예술이 일상 속에 침투하도록 시도한다.

전시 제목 ‘Greasy Corner’는 기름진 구석과 ‘아무 데도 아닌 곳’이라는 뜻의 미국 지명으로 엉망과 치명적인 순간을 비유하기도 하며 다양한 해석을 불러일으킨다.