Posts

Jim Jarmusch & Murakami Haruki

Even ten years ago, I had considered Jim Jarmusch & Murakami Haruki as being eternal young men. Recently, I came to take a look at their latest pictures. And they are not any more fresh in their appearance and of course not in their works. The name of Murakami Haruki itself has meant me youth, emptiness, nihility, vacancy since the late of 1980s. He swept the Korean reading public as well as Japanese readers. When I read his book 'Norwegian wood' 1n 1988, I also decided to be his fan forever. He had insightful and heeling ability to soothe forlorn young men who were embarrassed with new world where was about to start to be called post modernism or post industrial society. All of a sudden, How strange and unfamiliar our world looked. He had been a representative of all the wandering soul. Whenever his books were translated into Korean version, I was willing to be a busy reader. Until now, I like his book 'Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world' which has real...

Jeff Koons and Ciciolina as Kitsch artists

Do you know about Jeff Koons? He is famous for showing 'Kitsch art' to the viewer since 1990s. These days, his works are paid attention by collectors and critics over the world. In spite of some of his works being really dirty and filthy, Jeff Koons is considered as reliable artist in art price or quality among living contemporary artists. Today, I want to say a serial photos called 'Made in heaven' which is acknowledged as, in fact, pornography. I wonder whether or not this set of photos belongs to fine art like Mattew Barney who are dealing with similar themes. Because these series are surprisingly so obscene and nasty that we doubt our eyes in front of them how and why he took pictures. These photos would be displayed or shown under the note saying 'Adults Only' even in galleries or auctions. Two models are an artist himself and his ex-wife Cicciolina who was a porno star and Italian congress member. I will show their works below. Fantastic! Now they divorced...

A gem in our life

Did I have a gem in my life? Sadly speaking, I didn't. Since I was a young girl, I've never had a dream to do. I just have ambiguously tried to survive in this world for myself. Life seemed to vague and translucent. I am always in want of more ability to make friends and keep up with the trend. The reason why I felt so impressed by Michelangelo Antonioni's movies is due to their emptiness and desolation. On watching them, I came to know, unconciously, at once that he was depicting my own stories. I must have lacked a gene to love someone and to be loved by others like main characters in these movies. Regardless of being old, I become enchanted with many things differently from Confucius who announced the free from vacilation at the age of 40. On the contray, I'd rather enjoy my being tempted by men, friends, art, music and so on. Recently, I like one man who gives the special inspiration beside himself. He is unique, full of passion and a little bit out of his mind. And...

Blog Star

In Korea, there was a very famous movie whoes title is 'Radio star'. The main actor lives very similar life to me. He got very famous award as a singer when he was young. We couldn't forget the honor in our young and active ages even though our period had gone.

Art gallery and Auction

The tradition of Korean art gallery is very short and shallow, let alone auction. It is known that the beginning of gallery started from 1900 in Seoul. However, it is true the gallery under the modern meaning opened after 1960s in Korea. Even though the history is somewhat poor compared with western part, we can't ignore the right function of the gallery : the exhibition, the sale of art works, the support for artists, the education for viewers and the like. The association of galleries must have been proud of its dedication to Korean art market and art level. It have connected collectors to artists and tried to show the high standard to the public. Above all, it had no an enemy or a rival to compete with for a long time. At last it had a competitor : Art auction. Seoul auction appeared in 1998 and K-auction in 2005. Since then, galleries tended to lose its place as a main post of its field while auctions became healthy and obese. Instead, the auction started to encroach on the te...

About Korean Art Auction

Now, we welcome the boom of Korean art market. Differently from the past, many people are concerned with buying art works or art itself. We attribute the skyrocketing of interest mainly to art auction. In spite of side effect of an excessive heat in the market, we can't deny people started to pay attention to art by virtue of the auction. Given that some think of art just as an object of investment or speculation, this overheated phenomenon of the market is interesting no longer. However, at the same time we can't not but accept its right function: The audience focus on art at any rate. We have never had the time before which art was considered as one of big issue in our society. Every day painters are introduced in newspapers and broadcasting news. Some of them are regarded as great stars and their works change new records in price. We just had only one-Seoul Auction- even before 2005 when K- Auction started its industry from. And this year we came to have more auctions such...

True Longtail Rule

True longtail rule is the combined rule of longtail and 1% rules. This rule is the technical and economical rule.