KMK: Kyunghee Graduate Exhibit

Arts Museums

I love art. I may not have the abilities to create it, but I am definitely capable of appreciation. If there’s an art festival, gallery showing, or exhibition I’m more than game. Sometimes, though, cycnicsm creeps into my perspective. Certain styles just don’t resonate with me and often pique my ire. Nine times out of ten it’s some post modern work provokes such a response. I do my best to find something in every piece that speaks to me, but often times I just don’t get it.

When I heard about my friend Ian’s graduate exhibition at Kyunghe University I immediately assumed it would be a post modern fiasco. I could just picture the work of over a dozen college grads whose probable love affair with Jeff Koons would gestate into incomprehensible pieces of “dreckitude” as Andre Leon Talley would say on America’s Next Top Model.

As it happens it turned out I was all kinds of wrong. The work on display at the Kyunghee graduate exhibit turned out to be thought provoking, arresting, and in a few instances brilliant.

Several of the works I would never have guessed came from a student exhibition. From the whimsical and playful to the horrorific to the sublimely beautiful the individual pieces, working in concert as a whole collection, took the viewer on a emotional journey.

If the work on display is any indication then the outlook for Seoul’s homegrown art scene seems to be be pretty bright.

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Brian Dye
I’m a blogger, writer, and urban explorer. I worked in South Korea’s ESL field for the 15 years. My one year contract turned, unexpectedly, into a journey!
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