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Dept. of culture

straight out of korea

November 26, 2007  9:54 am

Sword

While the buzz about Chinese art and artists shows no signs of abating and art-world trend trackers have started to salivate over India’s potential as the next hot place, Peres Projects has pegged Korea as the new birthplace for talent. Internationally renowned as a tastemaker, the gallery, which has outposts in L.A., Berlin, and Athens, will be showing “Disturbed: New Art From Korea” at Peres Projects II, the Berlin location’s secondary viewing space. Donghee Koo, Suejin Chung, and Dongwook Lee, the three artists in the show, produce unnervingly violent imagery that’s all the more disquieting because of its subversively slick beauty. Lee’s miniature sculpture of a gleaming traditional Korean sword has its handle decorated with nude bodies linked together and bound to the weapon; a naked, masked protagonist searches for meaning amid destruction in Koo’s video “Overloaded Echo”; and Chung’s dreamy, surreal paintings offer an otherworldly vision of an updated garden of Eden. As curators, critics, and collectors scour the globe for emerging movements to embrace, Peres Projects’ endorsement positions “made in Korea” as the next wave of coveted contemporary art. For more information, see www.peresprojects.com.

—Ana Finel Honigman

Dongwook Lee, courtesy of Peres Projects

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