찬성의 목소리들: 북한 아지트롭 미술 북한 현대 미술 작가들의 오일 페인팅 12점과 1950년대 부터 80년대 까지 북한에서 발행한 포스터 70 여점이 전시 됩니다 . 전시기간: 2014년 11월12일-2015년 1월 23일 오픈 립셉션: 2014년 11월12일 수요일 저녁 5:30 - 7:30 전시 장소 죤제이 대학내 애냐 &앤드류 쉬바 갤러리 860 West 11TH Avenue New York, NY 10019 (58-59가 사이 11 에베뉴, 맨하탄) Assenting Voices: Agitprop Art from North Korea November 12,2014 - January 23, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 5:30-7:30pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JOHN JAY COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK’S, ANDREW AND ANYA SHIVA GALLERY proudly presents Assenting Voices: Agitprop Art from North Korea. Assenting Voices: Agitprop Artfrom North Korea is of seminal importance being one of a few exhibitions of its kind in the west to show formerly inaccessible North Korean art. The paintings and posters in this show feature celebrations of the North Korean regime and its Juche (Self-Reliance) philosophy. Consequently, and because of the morphological and political similarity of the works it is up to the viewer to surpass what is obvious to discern the underlying message. When the Korean art scholar Jane Portal recently visited an exhibition of North Korean Art in Vienna, she asserted “we’ve seen it all in terms of totalitarian societies.” “But” she continued, “this is the last bastion of this kind of thinking that’s bound to disappear. That’s why it’s so important for it to be seen and collected for posterity.”[1] The depiction of didactic subjects containing pageants, smiling children, hymn-singing youths, street and domestic scenes, upbeat girls and marching men are typical subjects of artists trained in North Korea in propaganda art defined by the government’s needs. This type of vernacular art as was also the case in the Soviet Union remains the paradigm for Socialist Realism in North Korea. In its dramatic, monumental scaled, message-laden tenor this art is meant to arouse comradery firing up as it does nationalistic fervor for the ultimate purpose of the Korean reunification, to maintain order and loyalty to the government and to the revolutionary struggle, and to show the superiority and independence of North Koreans. Cultural expression is part of everyday life and Art Propaganda squads go to the provinces to cheer on workers with songs and poetry and to congratulate them for their creativity as well as to inspire them towards ever greater successes especially during so called ‘speed battles’ meant to increase production. Out of context, these same posters and paintings become critical realism that puns and ironizes the content. Moreover, by their very presence these images address the absence that is South Korea, or the North’s other half along with the national trauma of separation and alienation. These depictions of relentlessly smiling citizens would be seen as grotesqueries in the west, masking the impossibly traumatizing circumstances under which they were created. On the other hand, for a North Korean artist any kind of individualism or veering from the afforded formulas of depiction is taken as capitalist decadence and harshly dealt with. Thus art functions as formula sometimes including the depiction of South Koreans as puppets appearing very small size-wise or shown while in flight from a North Korean attack, or North Korean soldiers stepping on the American flag, and carrying political slogans such as “We will defend our homeland to the last”. Consequently, this sort of art plays a social role and is typified in its representational models. GALLERY HOURS: 1PM-5PM, MONDAY-FRIDAY, OR BY APPOINTMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION: For more information please contact: [email protected] | 212-237-1439 or curator Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos, at 212-691-7978 or [email protected] Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 860 West 11TH Avenue New York, NY 10019 [1] nytimes/2010/08/15/arts/design/15noko.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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