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In December 1967, three experimental art groups, whose members were mostly graduates of Hongik University, held an exhibition at the Central Information Center gallery near Gwanghwamun in central Seoul.
Together, the concurrent exhibitions Only The Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s and The Shape of Time, Korean Art After 1989 offer a glimpse of the breathtakingly rapid achievement of a people, built on reservoirs of memory and imagination, optimism, extraordinary resilience, but also on tragedy.
Kim Kulim is a pioneering artist holding a significant status in Korean contemporary art history as one of the founders of Korean Experimental art.
South Korean artists active in the 1960s-1970s are the subject of a show at the Guggenheim Museum.
The experimental art scene that struck post-war Korea in the 1960s and 1970s like a meteorite is a buried chapter of history that deserves to be revisited - or, for most of the wor...