This piece carries experiences of 11 successful curators who have become to show their mediate ability to exhibit in their own way while skimming through an identity crisis. This book is message dedicated to co-workers and those who are planning to become a curator. The philosophy of exhibition that they have learned shows vivid realism in full intention.
Curators in their thirties who are lively and experimentative, curators in their forties and fifties who conduct dynamically at home and abroad and curators in their sixties who has been handling large display spaces all actively participated in this writing critically to pursue transition in modern art has the same point of view to seek change in the world of art.
Since the independent curators who aspire nonmainstream art, and curators from Netherlands, France, and New York are gathered together, the tendency, taste, and the way they work are altogether different. The point where they all open up and share their philosophy, methodology and experience to develop Korean art carries an important meaning.
Editor: Hong-hee Kim
Author: Hyun-jin Kim, Bit-na Choi, Heejin Kim, Sung-won Kim, Ji-sook Baek, Sun-jung Kim, Seung duk Kim, Frank Gotro, Young-jun Lee, Man-woo Park, Doe-ryun Chung, Hong-hee Kim
Publisher: Un-ho Kim
Published by: Hangil Art
The first edition and press: 24th Feb. 2012
ISBN 978 – 89- 91636 – 69 – 9 03600
Price: US $ 20
Contents
Hong-hee Kim – 11 curators and 11 visions
1. Hyun-jin Kim – Riskiness and freedom
2. Bit-na Choi – Facing the joint
3. Heejin Kim – The most honest interview of my life
4. Sung-won Kim – Forget the Curator
5. Ji-sook Baek – Review of a curator story
6. Sun-jung Kim – Everything that made me
7. Seung duk Kim/ Frank Gotro – Curators, Curaptors, Predators
8. Young-jun Lee – As the farmer plows a field
9. Park Man-woo – Curator’s workplace
10. Chung Doe-ryun – Reminiscence of the love of beauty
11. Kim Hong-hee – Curator live of an artist
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