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Nam June PAIK

Nam June Paik (1932-2006), best known as the founder of video art, was a master representative of the 21st century contemporary art. Born in 1932 in Seoul, he studied music, philosophy and art history in Japan and Germany, and worked actively in Germany and New York. Even before the emergence of the Internet, he has created the artwork that connects global people throughout television, and suggested that technology and media would be the means of going to the Utopian world. Moreover, he has visualized the new aesthetic concept through the reciprocal effect and harmony between nature, human and technology.

In 1963, Nam June Paik had his first solo exhibition "Music-Electronic Television" at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, in Western Germany. It was a bold and experimental exhibition reconstructing televisions from musical instruments. Paik used TV monitors as his canvas. He visualized sound with electronic waves and distorted broadcasting images as if they were moving paintings. Even eminent critics had a hard time understanding and interpreting his television receivers into artworks, but Paik pioneered a new genre of video art. After moving to New York in 1946, he met Charlotte Moorman, who was known in the New York art world through performances that integrates with music, art and technology. In 1967, Paik and Moorman were arrested in the middle of a performance, "Opera Sextronique" for reasons of "indecent exposure." Paik was released from custody without charges, but Moorman was tried and convicted for partial nudity. Later, Moorman's sentence was suspended. Through this incident, Paik's performance gained legal recognition as having artistic value and Paik rose to stardom for liberating art expression that had been long oppressed.

Paik held his first solo exhibition in 1974 at the Syracuse Evans Art Institute in New York. He also held a successful solo exhibition in 1982 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1984, his first satellite broadcast project, "Good Morning Mr. Orwell," succeeded in reaching 25 million international viewers at once. By realizing two additional phase broadcast projects in 1986 and 1988, he demonstrated the importance of "Communication culture through technology" which he had been long asserting.

Nam June Paik used various media such as TV and video, media and technology, painting, drawing, performance, installation and incorporating diverse art categories. He attended the Venice Biennale for the first time in 1985 and a second time in 1993; he received the honorable Golden Lion Award. In 1988, Paik created "Dadaicsun," a large installation project utilizing 1003 monitors. During the '90's, he created "Electronic Superhighway," comprised of 313 monitors with 47 different channels, and "W3" that had foreseen today's web-culture. A retrospective of his works was held in 2000 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he exhibited electric laser works such as the "Three Element." Through this exhibition, Paik's status as an artist became fixed, both in name and reality, as being the most internationally innovative and ultramodern. Even after he passed away in 2006, his innovative art world has been represented in renown museums including the Smithsonian in 2013, Asia Society of Rockefeller Collection and Tate Modern in 2014.

Biography

1932 Born in Seoul

1956 BFA Department of Aesthetics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo

1978-95 Professor of Video Art, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006 Died in Miami, U.S

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Nam June Paik TV Wave, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

2019 Nam June Paik: The Future is Now, Tate Modern, London (travelling to Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam March – August, 2020; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, U.S. November, 2020 – January, 2021; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S. March – July, 2021; National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore September, 2021 – January, 2022) Nam June Paik Media ‘n’ Mediea, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

#Art #Commons #Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

2018 Nam June Paik in Manila, León Gallery International, Manila

2017 Nam June Paik: In Character, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.

Retrospectiva Nam June Paik, Oi Futuro cultural center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tomorrow, the World Will be Beautiful, SeMA Nam June Paik Memorial House, Seoul

Extraordinary Phenomenon, Nam June Paik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

2016 Point-Line-Plane-TV, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

Tate Modern, London

2015 The Late Style, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

James Cohan Gallery, New York

W3, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

TV is TV, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea

2014 Tate Modern, London

Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot, Asia Society, New York

Meeting Nam June Paik in Shanghai, Hakgojae Gallery, Shanghai

Rheinland, my artistic Heimat, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

2013 Nam June Paik in Italia, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy

Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.

2012 Nam June Paik Spectrum, SOMA, Seoul

Nam Jun Paik: Global Visionary, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Fiat Flux: La Nebuleuse Fluxus, 1962-1978, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France

2011 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.

2010 Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

2007 Nam June Paik y Corea, de la fantástico a lo hiperreal, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

2006 Bye Bye, Nam June Paik, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

In Memoriam, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.

Paik on Paper, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2005 Den Zufall im Griff, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany

Olympe de Gouges, Musée d’ Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

2004 Award 2004 der Kunstschiftung NRW, Phoenixhalle, Dortmund, Germany

Global Groove 2004, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2002 Fluxus und Video Sklupturs, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

II giocoliere elettronico, Nam June Paik e l’ invenzione della videoarte, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

2000 The World of Nam June Paik, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hoam Museum, Yongin, Korea

Zeichnungen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

1999 Fluxus/Video, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

1997 Byron Cohen · Lennie Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, U.S.

The Electronic Super Highway, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, U.S.; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, U.S.

1996 Documentation of Nam June Paik, Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan

Video Sculptures, Electronic Undercurrents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The Electronic Super Highway, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, U.S.; Sandiego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, U.S.

The Electronic Super Highway, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis, U.S.; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, U.S.; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, U.S.

Baroque Laser, Pfarrkirche Mariae Himmelfahrt-Dyckburg, Münster-St. Mauritz, Germany

Videoveistoksia ja-installaatioita, Ars Nova, Turku, Finland

High Tech Allergy, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

1994 Sciamano del Video, Arengario in the Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

The Electronic Super Highway: Travels with Nam June Paik, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, U.S.

Nam June Paik: Recent Works, Albert Benamou-Philippe Gravier, Paris

1993 The Rehearsal for the Venice Biennale- The German Pavilion, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

TV Bed, Fish TV, Egg Grows, Beuys Vox, Darwin, Video chandeliers ‘91, Neptun, Weisser Raum, Hamburg, Germany

Artist as Nomad, German Pavilion, the 45th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Recent Works: Nam June Paik, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

1992 Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nam June Paik Retrospective: Videoi Time, Videospace, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Photographs, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

II Novecento di Nam June Paik: Arti elettroniche, cinema e media verso il XXI, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome