Alice's cat
Subtitle: Wook-kyung Choi = Aellisŭ ŭi koyangi : Ch'oe Uk-kyŏng
Contributors: Youn, Bum-mo, writer of foreword; Park, Eunyoung, writer of added commentary; Sung, Victoria, writer of added commentary; Cho, Sungran, writer of added commentary; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, South Korea)
Publisher: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Gwacheon, Korea
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9788963032931
Subjects: Exhibitions; Korean Art; Fiction; Art coréen; Expositions
Other titles: Aellisŭ ŭi koyangi
Description: "Wook-kyung Choi, Alice's Cat is a retrospective exhibition that aims to shed new light on Choi's overall artistic vision and provide a comprehensive review of a wide range of her work and career as an artist, art educator, and poet. The exhibition seeks to reinterpret Choi's oeuvre by focusing on the multilayered links between her art and literature, exemplified by her volumes of poetry and her interest in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Despite being active in both Korea and the US as a painter, educator, and poet, Choi has been largely considered "an American-style artist highly influenced by abstract expressionism" or "a tragic woman artist who died tragically young." Wook-kyung Choi, Alice's Cat intends to examine the significance of her works in the context of Korean contemporary art by regarding them through the lens of their relationships with contemporary art and literature from various angles. At the same time, the exhibition will highlight both the active life of Choi, who never ceased to explore new worlds while moving between Korea and the US. Moreover, it will invite viewers to understand the contemporaneity of Choi's active life and creations as she ceaselessly explored new worlds in Korea and the U.S., similar to Alice as she embarked on an adventure into Wonderland out of pure curiosity"-- Exhibition website.
Notes: Published for the exhibition "Wook-kyung Choi held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, held 27 October 2021-13 February 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and Korean.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Youn Bummo; title: Curatorial essay / Jeon Yushin; title: The works of Wook-kyung Choi. To America as wonderland (1963-1970); title: In between Korea and America, dreams and reality (1971-1978); title: To the mountains and islands of Korea and the home of Choi's painting (1979-1985); title: Epilogue. Mirror room : the beginning of a new story; title: Like unfamiliar faces : Wook-kyung Choi's American years / Eunyoung Park; title: The politics of color : Wook-kyung Choi's American paintings, 1960s-1970s / Victoria Sung; title: The art and literature of Wook-kyung Choi : paintings and poems as seen through Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Sungran Cho; title: The poems of Wook-kyung Choi. Small Stones (1965); title: Like Unfamiliar Faces (1972); title: Like Unfamiliar Faces (1989).