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“I think I understand time better than the video artists who came from painting-sculpture,” says Paik, because “music is the manipulation of time. . . . As painters understand abstract space, I understand abstract time“

John Hanhardt (then of the Gugenheim Museum ) curated a retrospective of Paik’s work in 2000.
He writes:

Paik’s life in art grew out of the politics and anti-art movements of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. During this time of societal and cultural change, he pursued a determined quest to combine the expressive capacity and conceptual power of performance with the new technological possibilities associated with the moving image.
I will argue that Paik realized the ambition of the cinematic imaginary in avant-garde and independent film by treating film and video as flexible and dynamic multitextual art forms.

What Seoul needs now is another Paik Nam June

I was at the Samsung Gallery (The Leeum) in Iteawon looking at a Paik Nam June. The video from screens flickered constantly in the typical Paik Nam June way. This guy was looking at it next to me and said "It looks like a video game." He was not happy about the art work in front of him. Maybe that was the artists intention. To make people a little upset. The situation made me laugh a little. The fact that this guy was upset art did have an effect on him that day. What was he expecting to see at the gallery?
What we what to see in a gallery/museum usually does not match we want. Accept that or stay home and play video games.
One thing you can say about Paik he was always interesting. Korea could use another Paik right now.
There is a lot of art to see in Seoul. I love it and I don't take it for granted.
But it's no where near Tokyo. Not even the same ball park.
Japan did something right along the way. I'm not sure what. So in a sense they've earned the right to be a cultural hub. I do feel like Japan has more people who want to invest in art. Seoul could very well be another Tokyo.
Seoul could use another Paik Nam June. A new artist to help jump start an international dialog, because in the end that's what's gonna make or break a city.

PKM Gallery: Richard Prince/Paul Mccarthy

http://www.pkmgallery.com/
I caught Paul Mccarthy And Richard Prince works at PKM Gallery in Seoul.
Great Gallery, great people. Props to PKM for showing Paul Mccarthy! Wow you guys surprised me! And Props to Sophie for showing me around.
The Richard Prince Painting was from the Nurse series. It was funny to see it in person because I've see these paintings in magazines a lot and on the cover of Sonic Youth's record Sonic Nurse (Sonic Youth lives close to Richard Prince or used to). I'm still wondering how much material was lifted from other sources for these paintings and where from? Prince got famous for his re-photography. Specifically for Spiritual America photos. I really enjoy his re-photography stuff. Especially the Cowboy photos and girlfriend photos. If you look at R. Prince's work it's all over the place, paintings of Nurses, re-photography, hoods from cars, the list goes on. However maybe it all comes down to media? Maria Morris Hamburg, the curator of photography at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art had this to say about the artist:

"He is absolutely essential to what's going on today, he figured out before anyone else—and in a very precocious manner—how thoroughly pervasive the media is. It's not just an aspect of our lives, but the dominant aspect of our lives."

The re-photography stuff could just be a trick to make us think about the media and how often images enter our lives without us thinking about them. The images of cowboys from old cigarette ads are somehow appealing to me (these were pre-Photo shop days of the 1980s). When I look at them I usually think about the original source material and what that could have been. Or I think about the year it was created.
Paul Mccarthy

The Paul Mccarthy photos were from the early 1980s. They documented a performance in which he is wearing a mask that looks something like a cartoon character. There where only three in the series that PKM Gallery had. Really I was hoping for some of his new sculpture featuring ex-president G.W. Bush. Oh well maybe next time. But they did have a huge screen playing an old Mccarthy performance. One which I wasn't familiar with. Seoul has massive potential as an art city and PKM could easy be a main player and facilitator. I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.

Buro Destruct: Posters

You can't beat Buro Destruct. They make the best posters. Images infused with a classic 70's swiss design with a bit of 90's and 00's sensibility. Not to mention the Asian influence. I wish I could say "Thanks" to the people at the Swiss design Company/movement Buro Destruct. Everything they do is outta sight. I'll let the images speak for themselves.

Court Ordered Richard Prince to Destroy Artwork in Copyright Breach Case

The website Slamhype said:

Renowned American artist Richard Prince has been ordered to destroy works worth tens of millions of dollars after the New York federal court ruled that the paintings, which featured reworked photographs by French photographer Patrick Cariou were found to be in breach of copyright.

http://slamxhype.com/art-design/richard-prince-court-ordered-to-destroy-artwork-in-copyright-breach-case/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slamxhype+%28SLAMXHYPE%29

Banksy: Exit the academy awards

The Faster Times wrote this about Banksy not being able to attend the the academy awards:

In perhaps the most telling moment of his recent career, the street artist ‘Banksy’ was denied permission to attend the academy awards in costume, and subsequently did not appear at all. Nominated for directing the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, the notoriously secretive man (or, debatably, collective) released a statement saying: “This is a big surprise. I don’t agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I’m prepared to make an exception for the ones I’m nominated for.” However, when faced with the apparent risk of multiple men in disguise accepting the award – which is to say, a scene — organizers barred him from entry.

Dear Banksy, Thanks for making the world interesting.

http://thefastertimes.com/entertainmentnews/2011/03/10/oscars-shun-banksy/