Artist(s): Nam June PAIK
Date: 25 Apr - 24 May 2013
The exhibition 'Nam June Paik: Exposition of Music 1963-2013' will be shedding new light on the historic moment where Nam June Paik, often called the father of media art, set in motion the trajectory of his pioneering art. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Paik's first solo exhibition 'Exposition of Music - Electronic Television' held in Wuppertal, Germany in 1963. In art history, it was from this exhibition that television was brought into the realm of art for the first time. The exhibition was also a watershed for Paik to move from a musician to a media artist. For this exhibition he manipulated the inner circuitry of television to produce various visual effects on TV screen. He also transformed the piano, a symbol of classical music, with diverse everyday objects subversively so that the piano could be played in a completely different way. All this was to provide the audience with a new dimension of artistic experience. Drawn from the Nam June Paik Art Center's collections, this exhibition will feature a series of historical photographs which is a vivid documentation of the 1963 exhibition. What will also be shown in this exhibition are his characteristic videos like 'Electronic Opera' and 'Global Groove' and video sculpture 'Schubert' and 'Fontainebleau', which embody Paik's distinctive perspective to break down the boundary between art and music in his later practices. This exhibition will be an opportunity to see how revolutionary the artist Paik remains for contemporary audiences.
