Albinism Closet designer Jeong Ji-Su
Jeong Ji-Su is a 22-year-old designer based in Seoul. His clothing design name is Albinism Closet, which captured my attention immediately when I heard it. The reason some of you know (or may not know) that albinism is an inherited genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment formed in the skin, hair and/or […]
Davinci Codex
KoIAN Co. Ltd is hosting an exhibition called DaVinci Codex at Culture Station in Seoul. It highlights the great discoveries Leonardo da Vinci made in a wide range of diverse fields. The exhibition visualizes the codex DaVinci has written over 37 years. Davinci Codex Kr description of the event “Leonardo 3’s first domestic exhibition that […]
Fornasetti : Practical Madness Exhibition
In 2013, for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of artist Piero Fornasetti’s birth, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan organized the exhibition, “Practical Madness.” The exhibition began to tour internationally in 2015 and its arrival in Seoul marks the first-ever showcase of Fornasetti in Asia. Triennale Design Museum decided to pay tribute to Fornasetti […]
DAVID BOWIE “Rest In Paradise” Exhibition
David Bowie was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, […]
Bollywood and India
Bollywood is like an insignia of India. Whether they like them or not, everyone knows about Bollywood films – replete with melodrama, song, and dance. Facebook posts show strange Bollywood connections. A new Spanish bride dancing to a Bollywood song on a street. German girls doing a Bollywood number on stage. Today, young men and […]
Look Smithsonian
The LOOK Smithsonian exhibition is the first-ever exhibition held by the American Smithsonian Museum in Korea. You can see this astonishing photo exhibition at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza) until March 15th, 2017.The photographs of the exhibition capture meaningful moments as well as pictures with a story behind it. There are 3 major themes within this […]
The “Klimt Inside” Exhibition
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary and is the second child of seven children. Klimt’s work is distinguished by the elegant gold or colored decoration, often of a phallic shape that conceals the most erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are based, like for example in […]
Korean Air Box Project 2016: Yangjiang Group
Korean Air Box Project is a long-term project that organizes displays of installation artworks by renowned artists from around the world in Seoul Box, the central exhibition space of MMCA, Seoul. Celebrating the experimental spirit of contemporary art and presenting a new vision for the future, the project chose Yangjiang Group from China to be […]
Tamara de Lempicka exhibition in Seoul
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980), born as Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter. As an ‘Art Deco’ artist, Lempicka reformed the portrait style, more specifically, the role of subject as a liberated and independent woman. Her work is difficult to classify and features elements of […]
Alphonse Mucha-Pioneer of Modern Graphic Art
Alphonse Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Mucha was famous for his commercial posters, which had a broad audience, but he also worked in a variety of other media, including furniture, jewelry, and theatrical sets. He essentially worked in Vienna as well as Paris, […]
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