'이미 세상은 영화다!' On YangAchi__Art After the World Became a Movie (Art_in_Culture_Nov. 2017) (original) (raw)
2017, Art in Culture
In the wake of , contemporary Korean artist Yangachi's solo exhibition at Atelier Hermès, Seoul (9.8-11.22.2017 cf. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2621926/yangachis-when-two-galaxies-merge-at-atelier-hermes-seoul), I contributed this essay. In contradistinction to the conventional way of describing him as a 'multimedia artist', or his works as another 'postmedia art', I tried to revisit his artistic oeuvre anew by foregrounding his consistent, otherwise familiar reference to 'cinema.' The secret kernel at the heart of his works, I argue, concerns the deceptively simple question as to 'what happens AFTER the world has become a movie'? Far from making his art works allegedly 'cinematic,' Yangachi's oeuvre embody another, arguably the most timely question-- 'where is the World then'? (*This review is being revised and expanded in English for an essay article)
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