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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea opens Home Within Home

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea presents Home Within Home open Nov.12.2013 – May.11.2014.

Home Within HomeA new massive building complex has been completed in the heart of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. An extraordinarily and delicately harmonious vibe fills the entirety of the precincts of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(hereinafter referred to as ‘MMCA’)’s branch in Seoul, as its buildings are entrancingly orchestrated in the way that the histories of disparate times and spaces chime in subtle symphony: The traditional Korean-style house of Jongchinbu, the office for royal family affairs during the Joseon dynasty; the red-brick building that was constructed in 1913 as the Capital Army Hospital under the Japanese rule and had housed the office of the Defense Security Command since the 1970s; a contemporary-style structure made of ivory terracotta and glass curtain walls. Located at the core of the contemporary-style structure, which is the Seoul branch’s exhibition wing, Seoul Box functions as both a plaza where the flows of visitors converge and diverge and a special space allocated for the installation of large-scale contemporary artworks of experimentality and originality.

Hanjin Shipping The Box Project is an MMCA’s ambitious project through which Seoul Box is accoutered with artists’ ingenious and stimulating ideas. MMCA has selected Do Ho Suh (1962- ) as the protagonist for the Project’s first chapter held in celebration of the historic opening of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s Seoul Branch. Suh studied traditional-style Korean painting at Seoul National University and painting and sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University in the United States. For the last two decades or so he has firmly established himself as an important artist in the international art scene through his exquisite sculptures, installations and video works of inimitable originality and intriguing concepts. www.moca.go.kr