Can't Break My Seoul – Artforum
Kate Sutton around Frieze Seoul 2023
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Kate Sutton around Frieze Seoul 2023 - Artforum International
IN THE 1930S, a savvy developer embarked on a real-estate venture in Samcheong, a neighborhood in the heart of Seoul that was once home to a six-hundred-year-old village. Using modern materials for an urban update to the traditional Korean building style, the company created the Bukchon Hanok Village, a tony residential area whose narrow winding streets are now firmly on the tourist map.On Monday of Seoul Art Week, Various Small Fires hosted a reception in one of Bukchon’s hanoks, whose baseme...
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Ghanaian artist breathes new life into littered bottle caps as resplendent metal mosaics
A ferociously glistening sheet of golden light that cascades from the ceiling to the floor becomes an immediate eye dazzler for anyone who sets foot in Barakat Contemporary in central Seoul. The eight-meter-long resplendent expanse of something - a painting? A tapestry? A sculpture? - warrants a closer second look.
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