“Art in the future, an exquisite harmony between analog and digital in the future”
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Jason Yim, yimjongho1969@gmail.com
“The direction of my life changed after I visited the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. This is where I first bought Ellsworth Kelly's work. In other words, I became an art collector for the first time. At that time, Asian female collectors were rare.” Paik Hae Young said.
In 1982, Paik went to the United States dreaming of becoming a pianist. But after her fateful day, she began to walk the path of her gallerist. Because of her relationship at the time, she has maintained a deep family bond with the Paula Cooper Gallery to this day.
She is one of the big hands in Korea that introduces Korean artists to the world market. About 20 years ago, she introduced several promising Korean artists, including Kim Kang-Yong, Kwak Han, and Kang Ik-Joong, to overseas famous art auctions such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
The Paik Hae Young Gallery has been operating in Hannam-dong, Seoul for over 30 years. “In 1977, I converted the house I lived in and is using it as a gallery. There are many nearby Hyatt Hotel, Leeum Museum of Art, and embassies, so the location is good. I can show how art can harmonize in a living space.” She said.
Paik also focuses on domestic exhibitions of world-famous works. “I opened Joseph Beuys’s ‘Ecological Activist’ exhibition last November at Paik Hae Young Gallery Pyeongchang. Recently, I have been contemplating the role of the gallery after the pandemic. I plan to hold exhibitions on ecology, climate and environmental issues in the future.”
On May 2020, I held the exhibition 'My Artistic Hometown, Parnas' by world-renowned video artist Nam June Paik. The following year, I held the exhibition named ‘Nam June Paik, My Artistic Hometown’ in my hometown of Mokpo.
She is also a famous collector. She has a collection of works by famous artists such as James Turrell, Sherrie Levine, Kenneth Noland, Dan Walsh and Nam June Paik, Hyun Suk Song, Jung Jin Lee, Whanki Kim, and Hyong Keun Yoon.
Paik said, “The future of the Korean art market is bright as the participation of younger generations increases. This September, Fireze and Kiaf will be held in Seoul together. At the same time, KiafPlus will be held, and works of various genres such as NFT art and New media art will be introduced to a wide range of domestic audiences. Korea will emerge as an important market in Asia in the future.”
She said that the exhibition Nam June Paik’s ‘My Artistic Hometown, Parnas 2020’ was the most memorable. “Parnas is a gallery in Germany. Parnas is a historic place where Nam June Paik's first solo exhibition ‘Exhibition of Music - Electronic Television’ was held.” She said.
▲ 'Installation' by James Turrell
She said “Collectors need patience and long breath to constantly observe the artist’s life. I also watched the Artists Cho Yong-ik, Nam June Paik, and Park Hyo-jin for a long time,” she said.
She also advised Korean collectors who want to tour abroad. “There are many museums and galleries with traditions and history in foreign countries. Among them are LOUVRE Abu Dhabi Jean Nouvel, Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern Museum, Naosima Benese Island, Niigata Triennale James Turrell Hall.”
“Nam June Paik said that Art is writing the present history (now) from the point of view of the future. I also completely agree with his words. ” She said.
Paik also offered his opinion on the digital art market, which has recently been attracting attention. “Metaverse is the trend of these days. Another art market opening would be welcome. Now is the time for artists and technologists to work together. If they communicate and converge with each other, good results can be achieved.”
“NFT has various controversies, but in some ways, It can become a vital force in the market. However, We should be wary of being too entangled in the capital alone.”
“It is an unreasonable idea that all art will be digitalized. The art of the future should be a world where there is an exquisite harmony between analog and digital.” Said Paik.
She is a true gallerist who can predict the future of the art market.
A special exhibition ‘AS MY TASTE’ presented by PaikHaeyoung Gallery
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Maria Kim
A feast of 9 artists with unique tastes until April 11, 2023
A unique exhibition is being held at the ‘Project Room Garage’ of PaikHaeyoung Gallery, one of the famous galleries in Korea, and it is a hot topic. The title of the exhibition is ‘As My Taste’, and the works on the stage of this exhibition belong to nine artists with “a unique taste that makes you look back the more you see it.”
A gallery official said, "Taste reflects the sense of 'here and now' where many people live, and an individual's sense developed from such taste converges and is expressed in a unique work of a specific genre through work again." explained that The exhibition, which started on the 26th of last month, will continue until the 11th of April at the Baek Hye-young Gallery in Hannam-dong, Seoul.
The following is the story of the participating artists provided by Paik Hye-young Gallery.
김효진 / Kim, Hyo-jin (Nica) @nica_hyojin
Personal events and emotional drawing as an empty basketball court with madness, a small death combined with what Georges Bataille calls the 'climax', watching a worm dying, staring at the sea after a funeral, not answering the phone, making lies, spending a week with a friend, etc. Errors and weight that a pallet painting shows, absence of meaning, brush stokes that express characters, hand drawing, etc. They all convey the surrounding atmosphere of "lost" and "death" by bringing the features of the materials and gestures.
신동민 / Shin, Dong- min @dongminshin
In order to track the origin of the faint image accumulated in the body, light is cast inside and the blurred shapes that are gradually revealed are explored. The unknown senses that were floating the body like that are captured and transferred onto the screen through an intuitive drawing process. Irregular, winding edges and tangled lines on the screen integrate and encompass the inside and outside of the screen, creating an open organic shell. My work is a record of the feelings of things that continue to flow, the things that lean against each other and touch each other at an angle, the deadlock created by the clash of vitality and entanglement, and heterogeneous things. I rather than processing the images neatly, I want to weave them weakly and disorderly. By intentionally placing the events and images on unclear boundaries without fragmenting them, we intend to endlessly reserve the conclusions of the events that the images occur. I am working on it hoping that the weak order, which is balanced in a close and arbitrary state, is to be maintained.
윤석원 / Yoon Suk-one @yoon_suk_one_official
I draw things that have done their roles, that have ended their lives, or that have disappeared and remain only on record. I want to put compassion and praise for such things into paintings. I want to express things that are aged or old, worn and disappeared with power and vitality. I want to capture the energy they would have had when they were fulfilling their roles and the expectations for the next generation. I hope my work to be remembered as an 'adjective', not a 'noun'. I am more interested in mysterious things than novelty, and I am sensitive to changes happening around me while I find it difficult to change myself. I love old music, movies and literature. I am ignorant of fashion, and I am more afraid of life than death. I like to feel the change of light and air. I like drinking rather than drinking socially, and I choose what I always
이보영 / Lee, Bo-young @tracybolee
I like looking at real estate map for hours and walking around the neighborhood as hobbies. Taste. It's unfamilar and unpleasant like a valley, but captures and expresses something that you are constantly looking for. Through a walk, I repeatedly realize 'the place' by recording the images and sounds that I used to just pass by. Walking is a documentary act that could be done alone without meeting people in the pandemic era. These acts have become a daily routine. Since a few years ago, using Naver Real Estate Road View, I look around the houses in my neighborhood or in the town that I haven't been to or search for local images of the redevelopment area while traveling by public transportation. It's a habit of collecting to remember the image of the area that will eventually disappear in the future. 10 pieces of painting is the images collected locally through a walk, and the 'District' series and the 'City of Hope' series are the records of redevelopment areas or development areas spread throughout Seoul. Change could be sadness, but it also could be hope.
이지효 / Lee, Ji-hyo @zyozyozyo
The objects I pay attention to are mostly silent, such as the back of someone, the animal that I encountered on the street, and the clothes on the hanger. Objects without words quickly disappear or pass by, existing as themselves while keeping a distance from me. Desire to remember them becomes the driving force to move in front of the canvas. The screen is constructed by enlarging, reducing, omitting, simplifying, and emphasizing chunks of lines, faces, and curves. Among them, my favorites are simplification and omission. I do not know why, but it takes a lot of trial and error to take a step toward simplicity. It is my goal to reduce errors, but they sometime motivate me to move differently. I want to think differently and anew. So I spend time constantly stacking up the movements on the canvas.
임수범 / Lim, Su-beom @subeomsu
Humans can only identify about 5% of substances in space. Our world is full of unknown. In this uncertain world, choices made by humans are also unstable. Therefore, it is almost impossible to think that a perfect world with no errors will come through the choice we make. Nevertheless, we all live by making choices endlessly. At this point, I thought that the visual image of the uncertain future world through the work and the endless expansion itself was probably very similar to the actions of all humans. The work draws continuous drawings in all directions based on various images collected from ideas that come to mind while traveling along the road, scientific articles, and the form of old relics. Because part of the drawing is cut off and drawn on the canvas, it creates constant expansion even among the segmented canvas. I believe that someone else's new narrative will emerge and be added to the canvas, where yesterday and today's stories are irregularly mixed. Based on these beliefs, we want to read and share narratives in our own ways and create a wider and more unstable but solid world at the same time.
전수현 / Jeon, Soo-hyun @_sooh_yun
Rather than being manipulated sophisticatedly and smoothly for a play, my marionette relies entirely on an automatic cradle, as if a piece of meat hanging from a butcher that can be touched by people. We pay attention to the possibility
of subversion of eroticism and anxiety, which are suppressed and tangled with various institutions and norms in our society, and primitive things that are insignificant or ignored.
최명헌 / Choi, Myeong-heon @myeongheon_c
I draw things that I encountered at various points in daily life as a landscape of water. The picture starts from a specific object, but gradually deviates from the object in the process of drawing. The figure of the painting that I want to grab is not somehow approachable. This is because it is similar to the nature of water that flows immediately even if it is caught. The flow of water takes up space, but because it occupies the moment, I sometimes catch the illusion reflected on the water surface with my hand, and sometimes let it flow in a volatile and powerful wave. I'm slow and not flexible to keep pace with this unpredictable current. Rather than following the changing flow, I would like to come up with and present the present that I am immersed in through the medium of painting. The scenes being drawn are imaginary landscapes that are mixed with my senses, but I hope that they will be recognized as today's landscapes that everyone experiences and remembers.
한태리 / Han, Tae-ree @trtaeree
Mass 01 (덩어리 01), 115 x 172cm, 광목에 연필과 먹, 2016
In my paintings of wrinkles and lumps, I look at the combination of pouring and expanding forces. The remind me of a creature or someone's mind. When my colleague said that it seems like there is something inside without revealing it, I wondered what was in it. I can't find an exact answer to the continuous question trying to find meaning. Not being able to reach a conclusion, I could only give an answer that they just exist. My eyes focus on form first. In the process of moving to a flat surface, it was treated as if it were making or cutting lumps. Recently, I have been asking questions about the line. I classify curves and straight lines, and curves are more natural and primitive than straight lines. To me, shape and curve are the tastes.