Contemporary Art Exhibit
Contemporary Art Exhibit, Brochure, 1957, MMCA Art Research Center Collection

Contemporary Art Exhibit

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An exhibition held from 1957 to 1969 by Chosun Ilbo. Two artists, Kim Byungki and Kim Youngjoo, and a reporter at the Chosun Ilbo Culture Desk, Han Bongdeok, participated in the establishment. The invitational united independent artists that resisted the authority of the establishment and triggered the emergence of Anti-academicist exhibition, minjeon. The invitational also contributed to the spread of Informel Abstractionism in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first exhibition, held in 1957, featured 20 Western-style artists, and from the fifth exhibition, held in 1961, the invitational accepted submissions from not yet established artists. In the following year, 11 artists were invited from overseas to take part in an international exhibition, and in 1963, the invitation of an Academicist artist raised controversy. The invitational was discontinued after this 13th exhibition in 1963.
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art. Korea Arts Management Service