[News] Radical approach: 'Experimental Art in Korea' exhibition arrives at UCLA's Hammer Museum

“Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” is the first exhibition in North America to explore the groundbreaking shifts made by a generation of artists in the decades following the Korean War in the 1950s. The display will be available to the public starting Sunday, and Spectrum News was on-hand to learn more during Friday’s press preview at the museum.

One highlight that Kang Soojung, curator of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, detailed during Friday’s tour was the “Kiss Me” sculpture by Jung Kangja, which comments “on the flight of modern-day women from the duties of motherhood, sexual fidelity and family loyalty,” according to the artwork’s official description displayed in the Hammer Museum.

Feb 10, 2024