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1. Verena Guther 作 France
2. Kolnisch Wasser 作 ㅣLenticular 3D Photography
3.Bente Skjottgaard 作
4. Yi Chul Hee 作 / Winner's Face-King Korea
5. Kim Myung Nam 作 /The Morning of Yangcheon
6. Lim Dong Lak 作 Korea / Point-Mass
KIAF /
09 Sep 18-22
Korea
International
Art
Fair
KIAF는 그동안 2007에는208개의갤러리,작년에는 218갤러리가 참가했으나 올해는 작품의 수준을 높여 오직 국내갤러리122개 해외46개 갤러리등 독일, 중국, 스페인, 일본, 호주,프랑스 그리고 인도, 기타국을 포함 168개의갤러리만이 참가 한다. 약 1,200명의 작가의작품 4,600개의작품이 선보이고있다. 이번행사는 특별히 인도를 초대국으로하는 프로그램을 만들어 인도의 현대미술과 잠재력있는 유능한 작가들의 뛰어난 작품을 선보이고있으며 보다 잠재력있는 시장으로 성장 발전 시켜나갈 계획이라고 주최측은 말하고있다,
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
The biggest art fair in Korea opens Friday, with high hopes amid a slump in the local art market.
The Korea International Art Fair 2009 will bring together galleries, collectors and art lovers for five days through Sept. 22, at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center, southern Seoul.
Pyo Mi-sun, chairman of the Galleries Association of Korea, said the KIAF hopes to reinvigorate the stagnant Korean art market, which has been affected by the global economic downturn.
 KIAF has a much leaner line-up of galleries this year. Only 168 are participating, down from 218 last year and 208 in 2007. This includes 122 domestic galleries and 46 from countries such as Germany, Japan, Spain, Australia, France, China and India, among others.
Still, KIAF includes the biggest Korean galleries Arario Gallery, Kukje Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, and Gana Art Gallery. Foreign galleries include China's TS1 Beijing, Colombia's El Museo, France's Galerie Maria Lund, Germany's Walter Bischoff Galerie and Japan's Gallery Kaze.
Over 4,600 works by approximately 1,200 up-and-coming and world renowned artists are on display at the art fair, hoping to attract the attention of the art-loving public and art collectors.
India's contemporary art is in the spotlight, as it is the guest country at this year's KIAF.
``Through the India Guest Country program, KIAF wishes to demonstrate Indian art's excellence as well as its potential for further growth as an art market to the public and professionals,'' organizers said.
The exhibition of Indian art ``Failed Plot,'' curated by art critic Gayatri Sihna, is ``inspired by the idea of the incomplete picture.'' Works of 15 Indian artists including Gigi Scaria, Tejal Shah, Surekha, Rohini Devasher and Manjunath Kamath will be shown. Sinha will discuss the exhibition in a lecture, Sept. 18 at 1 p.m., while Parul Dave Mukgerji of Jawaharlal Nehru University of New Delhi will give a lecture on contemporary art practices in India, Sept. 18 at 3 p.m.
KIAF has organized special exhibitions to attract a wider audience. ``Modern Boy, Modern Girl: Korean Contemporary Art, Modernism & Modernity'' hopes to broaden the public's view of Korean contemporary art.
``The exhibition will shed light on how the contemporary artists felt, perceived and tried to reflect modernity in their paintings. It will also show how the task of practicing modernity was fulfilled by artists and their sensitivity through their manifestation of art in each period,'' organizers said.
The exhibition is divided into three eras of Korean contemporary art, 1920-1930, 1940-early-1950s and mid-1950s-present. Works by Kim Whan-ki, Yoo Young-kuk, Lee Kyu-sang, Paek Young-soo, and Lee Joong-seop are among those on display.
전시는 3파트로 나누어 한국의 현대미술, 즉 초기1920-1930년대와 중기1940-1950년대 그리고 1950년대이후 현재까지로 나누어 김환기,유영국,이규상,백영수 그리고 이중섭 등의 작품들이 진열된다.
Korean artist Yoo Eun-joo will give a special performance of her work ``The Blinds," Sept. 19-20 (12 p.m. and 4 p.m.). Seven artists from Korea, Japan and Taiwan were chosen by KIAF to give special presentations of their works in the lecture room, Hall D, Sept. 20.
Children are also given a chance to learn about art and have fun during the art fair through the ``Kids in KIAF'' program. There are five programs teaching children about space design, media art, environmental design, photography and art therapy. For reservations, download an application at www.kiaf.org and send an e-mail to kids@kiaf.org.
아이들은 미술에 대해 배울 수 있는 기회가 주어질 것이며 "Kids in KIAF"프로그램을 통해 행사가 열리는 동안 즐거움을 갖게될 것이다. 공간 디자인, 미디어 아트, 환경디자인, 사진 그리고 미술 테라피 등 5개 부문에 대한 교육 프로그램이 있다.
There are guided tours in Korean and English, every day at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are 15,000 won for adults and 10,000 won for students. Visit www.kiaf.org (Korean, English).
Galleries pushed fresh new talent at this year's Korea International Art Fair 2009 (KIAF), as the global economic downturn continued to affect the art market.
Artworks by big-name artists Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Fernando Botero, Marc Chagall, Paik Nam-june and Lee Ufan were on display, but a lot of fresh, innovative works by up-and-coming artists also garnered attention. These works by new artists were surprisingly affordable, going for around one million won for small works and sculptures.
Osaka-based Tezukayama Gallery brought some works by young Japanese artists such as Akiko Sumiyoshi, whose cute animal character sculptures went for around $2,800 to $3,000.
``KIAF is a big art fair. Last year, the art market was not so good, so we think it is a good chance to get attention for our artists this year. We brought artists that are young, have powerful works and the prices are cheap. It's a good investment,''' Tezukayama Gallery director Ryoichi Matsuo told The Korea Times.
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