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Abstract: Young-Il Ahn (1934-2020) was a pioneering artist whose works spanned over a half-century in three nations—Korea, Japan, and the United States. He is widely known for his large-scale abstract paintings mostly inspired by transcendent themes of water, music, and nature. His most significant series, “Water”, was the subject of the 2017-2018 exhibition at the Los Angeles County of Museum of Art (LACMA) titled “Unexpected Light”—so that Ahn was the first Korean American artist to have a solo exhibit at LACMA. However, in contemporary American art history Ahn remains an outsider, a foreigner viewed through the lens of his ethnicity and native culture though he lived more than...
Young-Il Ahn exhibition catalog for LACMA.
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Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party, the criminal negligence of the owner and also the crew members of the sunken Sewol Ferry, as well as the political scandals of 2016, there has been much public debate about morality, transparency, and the law in South Korea. Yet, despite its prevalence in public discourse, transgression in Korea has not received proper scholarly attention. Transgression in Korea challenges the popular conceptions of transgression as resistance to authority...
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