[KS] Korean exhibitions at UCLA Fowler Museum

[Jongmin Paek]

Dear colleagues,
Let me draw your attention to two upcoming exhibitions at the UCLA Fowler Museum .
Best regards,
 
Burglind Jungmann
Professor of Korean Art and Visual Culture
UCLA
Department of Art History
405 N. Hilgard Ave.
PO Box 951417
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
phone: (310) 825-0937
fax: (310) 206-1903
 
 
On August 22, 2010, the Fowler Museum at UCLA will open two exhibitions focusing on traditional and contemporary Korean visual culture: Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World (until November 28, 2010) and Life in Ceramics - Five Contemporary Korean Artists (until February 13, 2011). 
 
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World 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. 
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. 
 
Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists, brings together for the first time the work of Kim Yikyung, Lee In Chin, Lee Kang Hyo, Lee Youngjae, and Yoon Kwang-cho — all of whom are represented in major museum collections worldwide. 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. Life in Ceramics 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. 
 
For further information on the artists and on the opening event see:
 
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?content=admin&content=cm&cm=current_exhibitions&article_id=1052158426&art=&did=71 




 
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