Gallery Hyundai
Contemporary art gallery in a historic Samcheong-dong courtyard building, showing modern Korean masters since nineteen seventy.
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This guide to Gallery Hyundai in Seoul opens in 1990, in the gallery's courtyard, where video artist Nam June Paik took an axe to a grand piano and cracked open television sets, staging a funeral-like ritual for his late friend and collaborator, the German artist Joseph Beuys. It traces how this Samcheong-dong gallery had already spent two decades earning the trust to host something so strange, since a twenty-seven-year-old woman named Park Myung-ja opened it in 1970 with almost no market for contemporary art in Korea. It follows how she went on to champion major Korean painters early in their careers.
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