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GANG OF
FIVE: sweet talk
Sept 17 through Oct 29 Artists' reception: Saturday, September 17 from 7 to 10pm regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac tel: 248-210-7560 web: detroitmona.com email: detroitmona@aol.com
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The Museum of New Art (MONA) is pleased to announce the launch and exhibition of ‘Sweet Talk’, a major new project by five artists curated by Hyun Jung Kim. The show consists of sculpture, painting, installation, fashion, drawing and photography, from artists who now live and work in New York, Chicago, London, Los Angeles and Detroit.
During the nineties, the South Korean art market
benefited from a protectionist currency policy aimed at keeping money at
home by imposing stringent taxes on outgoing funds. This, along with a
deeply ingrained respect for art and culture, has created a thriving
market for contemporary Korean artists within the country. The downside,
of course, is that it is virtually impossible to meet these prices in
the West. According to artist Nam June Paik, the power structure of the
Korean art world explained why major shows of Korean art were slow to
happen in the West. Thus the most successful Korean artists
rarely exhibited in Europe or the U.S.
Today, the explosion of the visual arts in China,
Japan and Korea has obviously opened up to the world and brought with it
new ways of seeing, not only these young artists' work, but invigorating
the vision of art itself.
The highly sensitive use of common materials used uncommonly by these five artists, and the resultant complex structures span a bridge between Asian and Western pictorial and sculptural traditions, yet the work always remains uniquely Korean. This makes their work incomparable. This group of fresh new artists is proudly comprised of: Hyun Seon Kang, Kyoon Hee Shin, Hee Kyung Chun, So Yeon Yang, and Ji Yeon Lee. The Gang of 5 and their SWEET TALK will be on view only at Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) from September 17 through October 29.
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We all get our share of troubles and sadness, but we
also get a shot at - Ji Yeon Lee |
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