AHL Foundation-Public Lecture Series 2019in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center NY
(c) Lee Seung-taek, Wind- Folk Amusement, 1971 Performance with fabric
Image courtesy of David Heald
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Foundation
This presentation also introduces the practices of these seminal South Korean artists who were not only pioneers in their experimental spirit but engaged with the flourishing international contemporary art community in the decades following the Second World War. Famously coined the “global village” by Marshall McLuhan, this was an age of commercial flights, television sets, and man’s walk on the moon, marked by the geopolitics of Cold War. This talk reimagines the art historical landscape of this important period, studies of which are often dominated by artists working in the U.S., Europe, and to an extent Japan and Latin America. In doing so, it seeks to bring focus to the artists’ individual experiences and responses to both local and international socio-political conditions of the 1960s and the 1970s.
Kyung An In her role as Assistant Curator, Asian Art at the Guggenheim, Dr. Kyung An is currently organizing an exhibition on the avant-garde practices of Korean artists of the 1960s and the 1970s at the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. She is also on the curatorial team of two upcoming solo presentations on the artists Gego and Sarah Sze. Previously, she provided key support for The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative’s two commission-driven exhibitions, Tales of Our Time (2016) and One Hand Clapping (2018), and the internationally-touring Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (2017). In addition to exhibitions, Dr. An makes significant contributions to collection growth through her role on Young Collectors Council and is also one of the founding curators of the Asian Art Circle. She also advises on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection. At the Guggenheim, Dr. An is also the curatorial lead on Teaching Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, an initiative supported by the Freeman Foundation that aims to create teaching resources on works by Asian artists in the museum’s collection. Dr. An has authored essays to important publications on Korean artists such as Ha Chong-hyun, Lee Seung-taek, and Meekyoung Shin. She has also contributed to the 58th Venice Biennale catalogue and is a co-author of the book Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? (2017), which has been translated into four languages. She received her BA, MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where she also obtained her doctorate in 2015.
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