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ashke516 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: on the beach

These might be worth checking out:

Art Tours

Yunah Jung, a professor of contemporary art theory at Sangmyung University, hosts a monthly art tour program. Designed as an introduction to Korean Contemporary Art, the art tours meet every third Saturday of each month to discover the most compelling exhibitions currently showing in Seoul. Through this program, you can visit the most talked about galleries, museums and artists studios. Come along on May 20, 2006 and be a member of this exciting program!

Exhibition: Divine Comedy: A Retrospective of Bach Yiso

Venue: Rodin Gallery ( www.rodingallery.org ) 1st Floor, Samsung Life Insurance Building
Taepyungro 2-ga, Joong-gu, 100-716 Seoul, Korea.
T) 2259-7789 / F) 2259-7795

Date: 11:00 A.M. May 20, 2006 (Sat.)
Meet in front of the entrance of Rodin Gallery.

Admission: 3,000 KRW

R.S.V.P.: If you intend to come, please send a short note to [email protected]
(C. 011-9986-1714)

Picasso Exhibition

Picasso: The Great Century Exhibition (May 20~September 3)

The exhibition, Picasso: The Great Century, held for four months will be a great chance to appreciate nearly 140 representative masterpieces of Picasso's Blue Period.
The main exhibition consists of 60 pieces of large-scale oil paintings, and 30 pieces of gouache, pastel, and dessin as well as 50 pieces of picture prints will be also exhibited.

Where: Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul
Go out of Exit No. 1, 11, or 12 of City Hall Subway Station (Line No. 1 & 2) Walk straight toward Chongdong Theater along the street next to the stone wall of Deoksugung Palace
You will see Seoul Museum of Art located on the left-hand side.
get more details from http://english.tour2korea.com/index.asp (under Culture/Events)

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Let me be the first to say: suh-weet. Thanks.

ashke516 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: on the beach

You're welcome! Smile

I'm hoping to go to the Picasso exhibit next month (unfortunately, no time this month).

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Mark Rothko exhibition of works from the Washington National gallery starts up at Samsung Museum of Art near Hangangjin station in Yongsan-gu,Seoul late next month.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject:

I'll see the Picasso exhibits.

Thanks! Very Happy

Soul Forest · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul Forest

I'd love to see the Rothko exhibition. His works are amazing when seen at full size. I've seen some stuff of his in galleries in Chicago and Houston (if I remember right). I guess the Samsung museum is the same as the Leeum? I haven't been there yet. But I remember reading that only on Thursday could you go without a reservation. (Well, it's Thursday today.) Anyway, I'll google it later.

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Its the same place.Its not a bad museum at all,fairly recently set up(just last year perhaps?)

The exhibition is currently in Hong Kong but a friend who saw it there said it was poorly lit.For example,shadows falling across paintings.If its lit well-especially not overlit or directly spotlighted it could be a fantastic exhibition.This tends to be a big problem with exhibitions that I've seen in Seoul.For example a James turrell installation was drastically underlit.,it was merely meant to be very dimly lit.There's a funny story that Rothko would often wait until the gallery staff had left before turning the lights down a bit.

Not sure yet which particualr works there will be,the national gallery has a truckload of his works.

You just need to send them an email or give them a call the day before.

I saw just a few of his works in New York,and when I was in london the rothko room at the Tate had been put into storage for the (then)ipcoming Tate Modern.Bit of a pisser as i'd studied Rothko a lot for postgrad art history in New Zealand.Anyways,I'm really looking forward to it.

misswindupbird · Joined: 08 Oct 2005

It is fantastic that someone decided to make this sort of information easily available. I know that the big shows are easily accessible with enough publicity but anything else seems to be a case of happenstance, if you are lucky. Thanks for the information on Rothko-I didn't know his work was to be shown in Seoul.

Does anyone have any information about art and exhibitions in Ulsan??
I know, unlikely, but it can't hurt to try.

freebeerandchicken · Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: Seoul

Wow, thanks for the info! I'll try to check out one of those Saturday art tours.. Is his commentary in English or Hangul?

tacon101 · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Location: seoul

thanks! cant wait!

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

You could try the sitelink on moca.go.kr.(bottom of page)

Drop a line to someone there they might be able to send you in the right direction.

ashke516 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: on the beach

A friend just sent me the information last week so I haven't been to either yet. I don't know if the tour will be in English or Hankuk-mal, but I would assume (I know, I know, when you assume... Laughing

) that it will be in English. I will miss this months art tour exhibition (I have to work that Saturday) but definitely want to check out next months. If anybody makes it to this months, let me know how it is please!

ashke516 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: on the beach

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Rothko?! Cool. I will be so looking forward to that.

Thanks, too, for the information about the art tours. I'll look into that once I get back from vacation in July.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

There is currently a Paul Klee exhibition (of his work on paper...) at Seoul Olympic Art Museum (near Monchontoseong Station, subway line 8, exit 1) that runs through July 2.

I hope that I can get over to check it out since his work was one of my early inspirations (along with Picasso, Kandinski, Ernst and the New York School of artists - including Rothko - though I don't care much for minimalism...)