The Miner Artist, Hwang Jae-hyung: Mining for Truth
“Art is an intermittent cough that shares the pain of others, and it is the talk of pain.”
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Choi Soon-im: Borderless Traveler in the Arts
“I thought that the process of sculpting was much like life itself: A creature can come out into this world only after breaking through the hard outer shell.”
Lee Min and His Pan-tablo Printmaking Technique
Lee Min majored in fine art at Chosun University and moved to Japan to major in printmaking at Dama University. Through the experimental process with various printmaking techniques, Lee pioneered a new genre of printmaking which he calls “Pan-tablo.”
Media Art: A Universal Language Spoken by Artist Park Sang-hwa
In 2014, UNESCO selected Gwangju as a “creative city” for media art. Media Artist, Park Sang-hwa
For this month, we interviewed one of the first-generation media artists who has long pioneered the path for media art. I visited the studio of artist Park Sang-hwa.
Interview with Top Reggae Archivist Roger Steffens
Featured at this fall’s Gwangju Design Biennale are the prolific works of actor, writer, lecturer, editor, photographer, and producer Roger Steffens.
Beeswax, Plum Blossoms, and Tea: The Works and Ways of Artist Kim Chang-deok
Artist Kim Chang-deok (김창덕), who goes by his artistic name Da-eum (다음), spends most of his time in his studio preparing for an upcoming exhibition about him, plum blossoms, beeswax, and tea.
Two Peas in Their Pods: Yang Na-hee and Noh Yeo-woon
These two artists both take as subject matter the dwellings of the alleyways and byways of the past, but as Kang discovers, they are not two peas in the same pod – no two artists are – but these two artists’ pods spring from the same pea plant.
An Artist Couple Living in the Arts
By Kang Jennis Hyun-suk FIRST ENCOUNTERSA couple of months ago, I went to a gallery cafe on Gwangju’s Art Street (예술의 거리). A lot of wonderful artworks were hanging on … Read More