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- Title
A Strange Kind of Optimism.
- Authors
Masters, H. G.
- Abstract
The article discusses the play of abstraction and political narratives in the exhibition of Korean artist Haegue Yang in the South Korea Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. It describes prior exhibits of the artist such as "Series of Vulnerable Arrangements" in Utrecht, the Netherlands in April 2006, and "Lethal Love" in London, England 2008. The first alludes to Kim San, a Korean freedom fighter against the Japanese and his biographer Helen Foster Snow. "Lethal Love" refers to the murder of German Green Party activist Petra Kelly by fellow politician Gert Bastian. The artist is quoted saying she is interested in being a political being but needs to maintain a territory where she is not claimed by anyone.
- Subjects
VENICE (Italy); ITALY; YANG, Haegue; BIENNALE di Venezia; ABSTRACT expressionism; ART exhibitions; POLITICS in art; SNOW, Helen Foster; KIM, San; KELLY, Petra; BASTIAN, Gert; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
ArtAsiaPacific, 2009, Issue 63, p108
- ISSN
1039-3625
- Publication type
Article