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A rare exhibition, at a museum in Switzerland, brings together works that, despite sharing a common cultural tradition, come from different worlds.

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 ...

How to cross the border between South and North Korea? Via Switzerland! The Missiles, 1994 (original) - 2004 (sanctioned copy), by Pak Yong Chol. Swiss collector Uli Sigg's privileged access to North Korea's leadership granted him the exclusive right of acquiring artworks depicting its leaders (in the picture: Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, sitting, with his son Kim Jong-il), usually forbidden to foreign collectors. Images of the three generations of leaders are only permitted on official sites. The individual authorship of the painting is also a rare case, as North Korean artworks ar...

How to cross the border between South and North Korea? Via Switzerland! The Missiles, 1994 (original) - 2004 (sanctioned copy), by Pak Yong Chol. Swiss collector Uli Sigg's privileged access to North Korea's leadership granted him the exclusive right of acquiring artworks depicting its leaders (in the picture: Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, sitting, with his son Kim Jong-il), usually forbidden to foreign collectors. Images of the three generations of leaders are only permitted on official sites. The individual authorship of the painting is also a rare case, as North Korean artworks ar...

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