Kim Jong-il painted like Christ: the curious case of the North Korean art show
Kim Jong-il painted like Christ: the curious case of the North Korean art show An extraordinary new exhibition in Bern pairs contemporary art from either side of the DMZ – and the differences are fascinating 4 May 2021 • 1:18pm Pak Yong-chol's The Missiles (1994-2004), part of a new exhibition in Bern Credit: Sigg Collection/Kunstmuseum Bern/The Artist Uli Sigg must know North Korea as well as anybody who wasn’t born there. The Swiss entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector first visited Pyongyang for business in the 1980s, when he worked for a firm selling lifts. “At night, the city ...
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