Few people may have a chance to see the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea’s collections–or have even heard about it.
Now visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Manila have a chance to see some of Korea’s best contemporary prints in a special three-week show that opened yesterday.
Entitled “Fifty Years of Contemporary Korean Printmaking”, the exhibition brings together 81 works from Korea’s modern and contemporary artists represented in the Korean museum’s collection.
Highlights of the exhibit include three prints by Paik Nam-June, considered to be the founder of video art, and work from the Minjung (People’s) school of art-making, parallel to the Philippines’ own social realist movement.
In fact, the intent of the exhibition, as the organizers told the press at a briefing prior to the opening, was to highlight the common threads in Philippine and Korean cultural development, especially after the Second World War.
The exhibition, which runs until August 23, is part of the Korean Festival in ASEAN, a Southeast Asia-wide series of events sponsored by the Korea Foundation. Earlier events from that festival included a series of musical performances in June at the CCP, and concurrent with this exhibit is a series of lectures at the Ateneo de Manila on Korean studies.
Not far away at Sev’s Café is the play Ritual World, a play by the emerging independent theatre group Shaharazade. It features a multi-national cast from the US, Kyrgyzstan, Cameroon, the Czech Republic and the Philippines.
It will run all weekends of August and the first weekend of September, but play dates on the second half of August and September will be held at Dito Café in Marikina City.
Finally, West Gallery will hold four exhibitions by Sarah Geneblazo, Nicole Coson, Iya Consorio, and Carina Santos. It will open next week, August 7, at six in the evening. The exhibits will run until August 26.
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For more information on the Met exhibit, visit their website at www.metmuseum.ph. For Ritual World info, please visit their Facebook page. And for more information about the upcoming West Gallery shows, visit their Facebook page too.
