| Exhibition | 2009Permanent Collection |
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| Period | 2009-03-03 ~ 2009-12-31 |
| Venue | 1st Floor |
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| Summary | |
| The house where the spirit of Nam June Paik lives on The Nam June Paik Art Center presents works of Nam June Paik (born 1932 in Seoul, died 2006 in Miami) alongside works of friends in the Permanent Collection on the first floor of the art center. Nam June Paik was one of the most prominent video artists of the 20th century, the first artist to realize world wrapping satellite art projects as well as pursuing many other innovative practices. Born in Korea, lived in Japan and Germany before settling in New York, Paik was an active member of the Fluxus movement from 1962 onwards. Paik realized performances with artists like John Cage and Joseph Beuys as well as Vienna Actionists like Herman Nitsch or Otto Muehl. Paik often featured many of his artist friends in his videos including, among many others, John Cage, Allan Ginsburg, Charlotte Moorman, David Bowie and Merce Cunningham. Paik’s first solo 1963 exhibition Exposition of Music, Electronic Television included many of the concerns and issues Paik later developed and accomplished his career. Held in a private house in Wuppertal, Germany, Exposition of Music, Electronic Television was the first art exhibition to include televisions. Interactive sound elements, as well as the ‘prepared pianos,’ instruments whose keys and strings had been manipulated by Paik to produce new and unusual sounds, were also featured. Like a Gesamtkunstwerk, the exhibition occupied the whole building from the entrance foyer to the toilet. The Permanent Collection displays wide ranges of the Nam June Paik Art Center collection in several thematic rooms on the first floor of the art center. Inheriting ideas from Paik’s Wuppertal exhibition, the art center avoids pre-defined path between each room which resembles a private house. The free passage allows to wander and to discover individual connections among works of video installations, objects, photographs, films, and paintings. In addition, the artist’s NY Broom Street studio is recreated on the second floor as the Memorabilia room. Around Paik’s impressive TV Garden from 1974 – an immense video sculpture combining television and nature – wide ranges of Paik’s art practices are displayed: his robots, his performances and documentation on Charlotte Moorman, Paik’s lifelong muse, who became famous for playing cello in the nude for Opera Sextronique in New York – and being arrested for doing so. The assemblage of differences, concentration on the essential and interactivity are some of the crucial ideas that reoccur in Paik’s works. Shown in Paik’s minimal/meditative Candle TV or his closed circuit installations TV Clock or TV Buddha, Paik challenged the way we consume TV and media. Further, Paik recreated the idea by giving the viewer the active chance to participate like in his famous Interactive TV XXX. Paik’s practice spans from innovative texts, such as his 1964… , seminal performances such as Zen for Head presented in Wiesbaden 1962, to spectacular video installations like TV Fish and Moon is the Oldest TV. |
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