Korean Experimental Artists Exhibition Brochure, 1974, MMCA Art Research Center Collection
Korean Experimental Artists Exhibition
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Experimental art
A genre of Korean art characterized by non-two-dimensional work such as sculpture, environmental installation and performance that emerged in the late 1960s and continued over the course of the 1970s. Art historian Kim Mikyung has analyzed the movement in the context of the political and social phenomena of the time and first coined the term experimental art to describe such work.
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Daegu Contemporary Art Festival
The Daegu Contemporary Art Festival was an annual contemporary art festival held in Daegu between 1974 and 1979. Three-dimensional works and paintings were frequently presented in the festival. The first exhibition (1974) and second exhibitions were primarily held in indoor exhibition halls, but the third exhibition expanded its venue to include both indoor and outdoor spaces. This third exhibition was divided into two parts, a major component of which was Lee Kangso, Park Hyunki, Chong Jaekyoo, Lee Jongyoon, and Jang Jeongjin’s collective outdoors piece titled Event in Nature. In addition, the Korean Art Association board members, including Park Seobo and Ha Chonghyun, came to Daegu to moderate a panel discussion about contemporary art and the concerns of avant-garde artists for the third exhibition. In the fourth exhibition, a significant inclusion was the video works of Park Hyunki, Kim Deoknyun, and Kim Youngjin, while in the fifth and final iteration of the festival, Lee Kun-Yong reenacted his piece Logic of Place, initially staged at the AG Exhibition (1975). In the contemporary period, The Gangjeong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival (Gangjeong daegu hyundae misulje), incepted in 2012, has continued in its tradition.
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Sincheje
Sincheje is a group formed in 1970 by Western-style painters who graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Its founding members were Kim Changjin, Yun Geoncheol, Lee Kangso, and Jeon Changun. They held an exhibition in celebration of the establishment of Sincheje at Shinsegae Gallery from June 2 through 6 in 1970. Sincheje was composed of young artists who pursued visual art concepts after abstraction, and most of them created works inclined toward geometric abstraction or Optical Art. Among the artists who joined Sincheje other than its founding members were Kang Hwajin, Kwun Suncheol, Kim Jungheun, Park Hakbae, Park Hangryul, Park Heeja, Park Sunam, An Boseon, Oh Sufan, Chong Jaekyoo, Jo Yonggak, Choi Sangchul, and Ha Dongchul. Due to the collapse of a common ideology and the departure of its members, Sincheje was dissolved with its eleventh exhibition held at the Korea Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center from July 10 through 16 in 1976 as the last exhibition. Sincheje is considered to have contributed to the opening of the art scene in the 1970s, along with the ST and Esprit, which were founded to establish contemporary art departing from the overheated Art Informel style of the 1960s.
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