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<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear colleagues,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Let me draw your attention to two upcoming exhibitions at the UCLA Fowler Museum .</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Best regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Burglind Jungmann</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor of Korean Art and Visual Culture</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">On August 22, 2010, the Fowler Museum at UCLA will open two exhibitions focusing on traditional and contemporary Korean visual culture: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World </SPAN></I>(until November 28, 2010) and <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Life in Ceramics - Five Contemporary Korean Artists</SPAN></I> (until February 13, 2011). <FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><STRONG><B><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </SPAN></FONT></I></B></STRONG></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><STRONG><B><I><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World</SPAN></FONT></I></B></STRONG> <FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">features seventy-four Korean funerary figures—most carved in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—known as kkoktu. These charming and festively painted wooden clowns, tigers, acrobats and more were created to adorn biers used to convey coffins during funeral processions. Their clothing and poses reflect the realities of rural Korean village life during a period about which few written records remain. Perhaps even more interestingly, the kkoktu are a window on a characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the kkoktus’ gaiety seems incongruous with mourning, they express a culture’s
deep desire that the dead enter the next world surrounded by joy—and an appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This exhibition was organized by The Korea Society. The works presented are on loan from the permanent collection of the Seoul-based Ockrang Cultural Foundation. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><I><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">, brings together for the first time the work of Kim Yikyung, Lee In Chin, Lee Kang Hyo, Lee Youngjae, and Yoon Kwang-cho <FONT color=black><SPAN style="COLOR: black">— all of whom are represented in major museum collections worldwide.</SPAN></FONT> These artists create strikingly different and highly individual works, transgressing the border between “art” and “craft” through their impressive installations and the monumental, sculptural appearance of their work. At the same time each artist celebrates the utility of the Korean ceramic traditions by making wares for daily use. <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Life in Ceramics</SPAN></I> is organized by the Fowler
Museum at UCLA and guest curated by Burglind Jungmann, UCLA Professor of Korean Art History and former adjunct associate curator of Korean art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=yiv144180520MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For further information on the artists and on the opening event see:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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