The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle.
The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle. A refugee from the Korean Workers Party, he left his hometown in 1950 for Europe. He soon found a new home in Berlin, where he was welcomed by a new generation of German art lovers. His new country was Berlin, too.One of the most important exhibitions in the history of the art world, the Berlin show featured over one hundred works by more than one hundred artists, and included works by over one hundred artists. The Berlin exhibition was organized by the Kunstakademie in collaboration with the Kunstverein and the Düsseldorf Museums. It included a selection of works by artists who have not been seen in the West for some time. For example, the artist Peter Halley, born in 1931, was not included in the exhibition in the US. His works, which have often been seen only in the US, have rarely been shown in the West, and the works exhibited here are the first to be seen in the West. One can only hope that Halleys work will soon find its way to the West. The Berlin exhibition had a lasting impact on the art world.The works on view in Berlin were chosen by the curator, Joachim Neu, who supervised the show with the help of the artists, but the works were also chosen by a group of German art critics who participated in the exhibition. The curators have chosen works by many of the most important German artists of the century. In the catalogue for the Berlin exhibition, the curator, Karin von Hohe, draws attention to the fact that the works on view in Berlin were chosen by the German public. The choice of works by the major German artists of the century was decisive in the selection of the works in the Berlin exhibition.The exhibition was organized by the German Ministry of Culture and Arts and the Düsseldorf Museums, and it was shown at the Kunstakademie in Bonn.
The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle. The artist was born in 1945, the year of the Korean War, and spent the war in a military camp. He was a prisoner of the regime and of the military. Sun is not afraid to look at the contemporary world through the prism of the past, and he has a penchant for representing the past by depicting it in a modern way. His paintings are usually characterized by a kind of irrationality, a loss of control over the world and a constant struggle between idealized and real objects. The artist looks for the inner core of the world, and it is his own personal foundation, the idea of an ideal society. He shows us the inner core of the world, and shows us how it is being crushed by the forces of modernity.The South Korean artist, the writer, and the filmmaker Kim Kyong-jae, who is also an artist, has worked in a similar vein. He shows us the inner core of the world and how it is being crushed by the forces of modernity. He shows us the inner core of the world, and how it is being crushed by the forces of modernity. Kim has worked in a variety of media—painting, collage, video, photography, and sculpture—and his paintings and collages are based on the same idea. In the recent exhibition, he showed a number of his collages, including a work based on the American Civil War, a work based on the Japanese occupation, and a work based on the World Trade Center. The collages were presented in a large square format, showing the various forms of the internal structures of the world.In one of the most moving pieces in the show, Kim Kyong-jae created a small sculpture that shows a kind of domesticity. It is a house from the Korean countryside, like the one Kim Kyong-jae grew up in. It was created in collaboration with the artist and his father.
The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle. The artist has lived in North Korea since 1974 and now works in Berlin, where he is a member of the North Korean Academy of Fine Arts. His painting is based on a series of paintings that he has done in the past, all of them from the mid 70s, in which he gives his subjects the look of being frozen in a period of cold mourning. The objects of these paintings, which were originally executed in the same medium as the paintings themselves, are rendered in oil on canvas and are then sold at a profit to an international market.The exhibition featured four large-scale oil paintings, all from the mid 70s. In them, the artist used a variety of media: oil paint, paintbrushes, and, above all, a variety of different colors. He uses them as a means of expressing the melancholy of the times, a feeling that has an ongoing affective and even psychological existence. These paintings are also, in their form and content, a kind of memorial to the artists life, a kind of personal, personal, and personal history. The paintings, all from the mid 70s, are made up of a single, central image, a central motif. In one, a girl with long hair stands on a platform, her back to the viewer; in the other, shes sitting on a couch. The colors are often black and white, as in the paintings from the early 70s. Sun Mu tells us that he uses the same colors in the paintings of the mid 70s. He calls them dark and warm, and he calls them black and white. The colors are the same as the colors of his black and white canvases, and they come to the surface with a simple, almost kitschy form. This is not a traditional way to use color; Sun Mu uses it to express the mood of the time. Sun Mu paints the same colors as his black and white canvases, and he applies them to the surface of the paintings.
The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle. The real hope for the North Koreans in this fictitious and utopian society is that their country will not be destroyed by the enemy.A few years later, in 1989, he was part of a group of students who organized a party in Pyongyang. The party was called for the people of North Korea, who were divided into two camps, the one of the South and the other of the North. The students were taught to share the same ideas, to use the same language, to love and to fight with one another. The two factions that emerged from the student movement were the North and the South. But while the North Koreans were learning the language of politics, they were also learning the language of life. Sun Mu joined the North Korean side in 1989. The following year, he moved to the South, where he studied under the same group of students. As the leader of the North Korean party, he made an effort to teach his people to use the same art as the South Koreans, to learn from the same artisans, and to be united in their common desire for freedom. The North Koreans were to be liberated from the South, and they were to be united with the South. At the same time, Sun Mu was to be part of the North Korean revolution.The painting Meinblau, 1989, is a powerful symbol of this unification. The painting is about the unification of the people of North Korea. The painting is about the unification of the people of North Korea. The painting shows two children playing on a beach, their parents holding hands. The painting shows two boys running away from a wall. The painting is about the unification of the people of North Korea. The painting shows two boys playing on a beach, their parents holding hands. The painting is about the unification of the people of North Korea. The painting is about the unification of the people of North Korea. The painting shows two children playing on a beach, their parents holding hands.
The North Korean painter Sun Mu tells his unusual escape story in the Berlin project space Meinblau. Included in it: Naive longing for a political miracle. He was not afraid of death.He had a wish to go to South Korea, to give his country a modern culture and a modern education, to introduce the German language to his countrymen. After his arrival in Seoul, he was arrested and spent five years in prison. In 1975, after a six-year hunger strike, he died of cancer at age forty-four. As he lies in a coffin in the grave of his mother, a tear falls from his eye. His mother has called him a freedom fighter. A woman cries. A few years later, the Dutch poet and novelist Paulina M. Hesselmann wrote, He is the only one who never lost hope. . . . In a very important way, the young North Korean artist Sun Mu lost hope. . . . He was a freedom fighter. Not the freedom-loving freedom fighter, but the freedom-seeking freedom fighter. The artist who had lived and worked in South Korea for more than two decades had only one wish: to go to the North. His dream was to study with Kim Il-Sung. But he never imagined that he would be sent to North Korea.Sun Mu was a freedom fighter in the North, and his paintings are a tribute to his countrymen. The paintings are divided into two categories: large-scale abstractions and smaller-scale collages on paper. In the large-scale abstractions, the artist took the form of a mannequin, often wearing a traditional Korean dress. The mannequin, he said, was a reflection of his countrymen. In the collages, Sun Mu made the familiar, but he added a modern touch. The collages were made of plastic and had been cut into shapes similar to those of paper. The paper was hand-stamped on a sheet of paper and on a sheet of paper, each sheet having a different design. The shapes were not visible, but the paper was very dense.
©2024 Lucidbeaming