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Mandy El Sayegh in her studio. Photo courtesy Lehmann Maupin.
The Malaysian-born artist Mandy El-Sayegh’s large-scale, layered canvases, which are constructed from “found fragments” and call attention to a world in flux, have caught the attention of the art world in recent years.
Her first solo exhibition in Seoul at Lehmann Maupin, titled “Protective Inscriptions” (through July 17), features “an immersive installation, combining painting and soundscape to activate a formless language of flesh and vibration,” according to the gallery. It also includes the everyday items that have become common in her work: old copies of the Financial Times, iconography from familiar advertisements, doodles, and pages of Arabic calligraphy taken from her father’s home in London.
May 27, 2021
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THE KOREA HERALD – Korea has recently emerged as an attractive art market on the back of purchasing power of younger collectors, grabbing increasing attention from the world.
Globally renowned galleries are opening galleries in Seoul or expanding their presence in the city. Frieze, a major international art fair, recently announced it will hold the first Frieze Seoul next fall, putting the city on the global market map. Seoul will be the first Asian city to host the fair.
Pace Gallery, the US-headquartered contemporary gallery with eight locations around the world, including two galleries in Asia, recently moved to a larger gallery space in Seoul, occupying two floors of Le Beige Building in Hannam-dong, a posh neighbourhood north of the Han River. The new gallery space will open today with a solo exhibition of American painter Sam Gilliam.
Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt: “I’m Terrified of Nostalgia”
The frontman of Iceage tells Dean Mayo Davies about the band’s new album and why writing is a way of making sense of life for him
May 12, 2021
Lead ImageIceagePhotography by Mishael Phillip
“I’m sort of getting used to being statically in one place for the first time since I was a teenager,”
Iceage’s
Elias Bender Rønnenfelt shares over Zoom from his home in Copenhagen, where he’s been (behaving himself) for the past year. “You do find, first of all, you can create lots of mess in the city you’re from, you don’t have to run away to do that. And second of all you just find that the ideas start coming from different places, or there’s just another tempo to things.”