| Exhibition | Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music 1963-2013 |
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| Period | 2013-04-25 ~ 2013-05-24 |
| Venue | Korea Foundation Cultural Center Gallery |
| Planning | |
| The exhibition «Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music 1963-2013» looks back on the historic moment where Nam June Paik, often called the father of media art, set in motion the trajectory of his pioneering art. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Paik’s first solo exhibition «Exposition of Music – Electronic Television» held in Wuppertal, Germany in 1963. In art history, it was from this exhibition that television was brought into the realm of art for the first time. The exhibition was also a watershed for Paik to move from a musician to a media artist. Celebrating this seminal exhibition of Paik’s, «Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music 1963-2013» was organized in collaboration with Korea Foundation, and drawn from the Nam June Paik Art Center's collections. | |
| Summary | |
| This exhibition features a series of historical photographs taken by Manfred Montwe, who worked for the 1963 exhibition as an assistant. What is also shown includes Paik's characteristic videos like <Global Groove>, <Electronic Opera I, II> and <Suite 212> and video sculptures <Schubert> and <Fontainebleau>, which embody his distinctive perspective to break down the boundary between art and music. There is also a section where you can catch a glimpse of his studios in New York through photographs and archival materials. On a spatial level this exhibition’s composition is such that you are invited to pop in and out of each section at random and to combine concepts and experiences embedded in it, which comes to activate the space in each different way. | |