PLATOON . cultural development

GANA Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition.

most of the art spaces in seoul are in ...? it's pyungchangdong! we all went there yesterday for gana art gallery's 25th anniversary exhibition . the exhibition will be opened from 04/09 ~ 21/09. it was a very nice opening party. here is more information about the exhibition. "celebrating its 25th anniversary, gana hold the present exhibition.the exhibition filled with stories of artists who have worked with gana. preparing the exhibition,the 24 participating artists had some special time to converse with each other. 12 artists who have collaborated with gana art for over 20 years and 12 young ones who have just started to work with gana made pairs and had heart -to-heart talks sharing their thoughts on art, questions on each other's works,view of art world,and the philosophy of life.it is not fresh or new idea to arrange this kind of conversation between old&young. however, these days, there are not many chances the both could meet and have open talks. this is why gana prepared the encounters between them.the views on art that the artists working with gana have could stand for the gallery's orientation. through their mouths,gana art wants to unfold its story and values. as the way of life have changed with years, the way of artists' entering upon the art world have a lot changed.here, the positive change was that the newcomers do not depend on any special route or power to step forward in art circles any more. now,they could solely depend on their art to express themselves. in the mean time,however,the individualism, snobbish attitude, and trend-chasing tendency have widely spread among artists. moreover,many people are worrying that it is not easy to find names of senior artists in exhibition pamphlets.in their self-scorning talks that old artists,the main props and stays of korean art, are losing ground in present art scene which is only focusing on young artists ,i see the reality of korean are world which have a burden of thinking to establish a healthy vision for the future art......" "25주년을 맞이하며 가나아트센터에서 선보이는 이번 전시는 그렇게 가나아트와 함께하는 작가들이 들려주는 이야기다.이번전시에 참여한 24명의 작가들은 전시를 준비하는 과정속에서 새로운 대화의 시간을 가졌다. 가나아트와 20년 넘는 세월을 동고동락해온 중견작가 12명과 이제 막 가나아트와 인연을 맺은 젊은 작가 12명이 서로짝을 이루어 , 함께만나면서 서로의 작품세계,작업에 대한 궁금중,예술관,더 나아가 인생관 등을 터놓고 얘기하는 시간을 가졌다. 어찌 보면 상투적일수도 있는 이러한 관계를 설정한 이유는, 과거에 비해 미술계 선후배가 만나 서로 작업에 대하여 터놓고얘기 할 수 있는 장이 부족한 현실 속에서 그러한 장을 만들어 보자는 생각과, 가나와 함께하고 있는 작가들의 작업관,예술관과 가나아트가 지향하는 예술관이 서로 통할것이므로 그들의 이야기를 통해 가나아트의 역사와 가치관을 이야기해보자는 의도에서였다. 세월의 흐름 속에서 삶의 방식이 달라진 만큼이나, 작가들이 미술계에 입문하는 방식도 많이 바뀌었다.긍정적인 측면이라면,과거와 비교했을 때 특별한 루트나 어떤 특정 권위에 의존하지않고, 오로지 자신만의 작품만으로 승부가 가능한 열린 세상이 되었다는 점일 것이다.그러나,한편으로는 작가들이 훨씬 개인주의적으로 변하였고, 유아독존적 성향이 강해졌으며,트랜드에 좌우되어 생명이 짧아져버렸다는 이야기들도 들려온다.그리고, 언제부턴가 전시회에서 원로 .중견작가의 이름을 찾기가 쉽지 않아졌다는 한탄과 우려의 목소리도높다. 너 나할 것 없이 젊은 작가만을 찾는 풍토가 만연하여, 한국미술의 핵심적 기둥인 중견작가들이 설 땅이 없다는 자조섞인 이야기속에서, 건강한 미래비젼을 세워나가기위해 고민하고있는 한국미술계의 오늘을 본다......" more information.-3rd bridge elvis? is that you?^^*. i really like those photo works. what makes ohyun happy? only beer ! what makes udo happy? as you know ....sleep n free food hehehe~~. nice mountain behind and fresh air with beautiful sky at a great art exhibition...krass gut!

OUR COURTYARD

on christoph´s birthday a friend presents him this sculpture. but it was at that time blank. and now, we have a green courtyard - nearly the old sunbathing area on our pool. so we remember sometimes with pathetic to past times. but anyway, its green green grass.....

international tee tour exhibition vol 2.seoul

last weekend there the tnt exhibition got down in gangnam for 4days area. organizer t-artist soo is doing an announcement for the party to start~~. people can buy a t -shirt and get an own there to do a print on their own. i really like this mini dj booth.^*~ yo~ somebody calling me, i gotta go! danke und auf wiedersehen~~

RIFRAZIONI

our new italian PLATOON.members are creating a buzz on the seaside just few miles outside Rome. art collective CERCLE is in fact organizing the third edition of RIFRAZIONI – an international festival of performative, visual and musical arts. protagonists of this edition will be London based collective „Leibniz“, represented by Ernst Fisher and Helen Spackman and by Chilean collective „Deformes“, masterminded by Gonzalo Rabanal, one of Chile´s most innovative exponents of performing arts. Berlin collective „Invasor“ will also take part in the initiative along with members of the Brazilian group "Teatro Oficina" and several other Swiss and Italian artists. the locations of the festival (a mediaeval castle overlooking the beach and the ruins of the ancient Nero Villa) will be a source of inspiration for the many creatives involved; their engagement with the local reality will bring new works into life wich somehow will have as result an elaboration and re-interpretation of the local identity. interventions in theatre, dance, cinema, photography and visual arts will follow contemporary social topics such as: politics of the body, migration and social exclusion. RIFRAZIONI wants to diversify the cultural offer in the area, aiming at interdisciplinary cross-overs in a sort of contamination between the arts and global cultures. the festival, in fact, presents itself as a „free zone„ for the interaction of several disciplines, genres and contemporary forms of communication. ...if you happen to be in the area during the end of august you should definitely go and check it out! RIFRAZIONI running from the 22 - 31 august 2008 in different locations around Anzio-Nettuno (RM)

TNT - NEXT ROUND

tshirt artist soo is inviting to a new round of the TNT-exhibitions where everything will be about... t-shirts! 20 artists from 5 countries will present their latest fresh works, surrounded by artist performances and sets by some of seoul's finest djs. the event begins on thursday, august 14, 8pm and will be going on until sunday, august 17, 7pm. see you @ iws, for more infos check the website! take care~

JONG WHA PARK -PIANIST-

last week we all went to the french cathedral to listen to the berlin international classical music festival and especially to watch the extraordinary performance of JONG WHA PARK, a good friend of PLATOON, whom we met in seoul:. he played in the master series, executing works of schumann, bach and chopin. it was great! only set back was the bad acoustics in the room -there was a sort of echo that was distracting the artist, first of all, but also the audience. It´s kind of strange that no one thought about it beforehand. nonetheless the pianist was brilliant. a wonderful piano-concert.; the listeners applauded enthusiastically and JONG gave us 4 extras.

Trolleybooks at PLATOON

Trolleybooks at PLATOON has been an amazing event! we are very glad to have met Gigi and Hannah, they are two very special persons and we really enjoyed exchanging views with them... and i guess the same goes for them...in fact Gigi is now, as he likes to say, PLATOON member number 1! and i can assure you that we also switched completely in a TROLLEY-Mood these days. a special thanks goes also to all of you who came....we knew that it wasnt going to be pleasant, but life is not pleasant sometimes, and that reminds us that we can actually do something about it....each of us in our own way. we sincerely hope something moved inside you... at some point i was literally shaking. Lucky Michaels – photographer of Shelter - also delivered his message extraordinarly. we still have his exhibition in our recruitment office..in fact you are very welcome to come and have a closer look this week, before we send them back to London. the day after the event, Gigi&Hannah left for Dubrovnik with their Trolley-van...this man is on a serious mission, and it´s a very noble one, the one against any form of injustice! Big up for you Trolley warriors, we at PLATOON are completely on your side and hope to see you again sometimes soon.

watch ! opening of the PLATOON.recruitment office

...many thanx to all of you for celebrating with us last week! here our video capturing the day special thanks goes to the artist skinnerbox stefan schütz gnomjogson soni riot

DROP THE BOMB

tomorrow started a night of entertainment in the BangBang Cub Hackescher Markt. come on, because it´s a great pleasure. door is open 10pm. 4 euros befor 11 pm 6 euros after... among others you can see and hear gene, a kooky vocalist with a great voice.

PLATOON presents Trolleybooks

following the wave of new recruits we had after the opening day, we are really glad to invite you to another recruitment.session here at PLATOON. for the occasion we´ll have a slideshow evening organized and presented by Gigi Giannuzzi, publisher and director of Trolleybooks, an independent publishing house specialized in social documentary and photo-journalism, who will present some of his latest publications here at PLATOON. Trolleybooks has been often described as guerrilla style reportage bordering with contemporary art. a description really fitting PLATOON´s tradition of culturally involved events. it´ll be a special evening presenting the latest Trolley slideshows of new and forthcoming books, featuring: ‘A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia’ by Alixandra Fazzina and ‘Delta Nigeria - the Rape of Paradise’ by George Osodi. with a book signing and exhibition of photographs from 'Shelter' by Lucky Michaels. here some more info about Trolleybooks Wednesday 30th July 2008 start around 7:30 - 9pm (slideshows start as soon as it gets dark!) admission free - please send us a confirmation email to be on the guestlist! - marcello@platoon.org