Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: "Corporal Term" was re-created for this site-specific 2023 installation from the original 1971 design of the artist Lee Kun-Yong. A large, sturdy tree trunk, several feet in diameter, rising about 12 feet tall from a tightly packed cube of soil, gravel, and concrete, dominates the center of the gallery. The entire...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: In "An Upside-Down Map of the World", artist Sung Neung Kyung disassembles and then reassembles a paper map. Created in 1974, the installation includes two sections: the first is the original border of the world map that hangs above the second section, a reassembled body of the map which lies parallel to the floor...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: In this 1982 installation called "Untitled (TV Stone Tower)", the artist Park Hyunki assembles large slabs of stones and a CRT monitor into the shape of a "doltap", which is a stacked stone tower traditionally erected at the entrances to Korean villages or temples. The large slabs of natural stone are all the same...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: This work by Lee Kun-Yong is part of a series created between 1976 and 1979. This piece from 1978 features five plywood panels lined up vertically edge-to-edge reaching a full height of 5 1/2 feet tall by 3 feet wide by about an inch deep. Each panel is the same thickness and width but has varying heights. The two...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Four tree branches are suspended horizontally from the ceiling in this gallery to create Lee Seung-taek's installation "Paper Tree", dated to the 1970s. They vary in length from around 3 to 4 feet long and several inches thick in diameter. They arch and curve organically across the space, arranged asymmetrically, w...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: This installation of "Untitled (Sprout)" by artist Lee Seung-taek was originally created in 1963 and refabricated in 2018, since the original was destroyed. Six large, freestanding sculptures are arranged across the gallery. They vary in size and distance, grouped between one to several feet apart. Similar widths,...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: In "Apple", from 1976, a horizontal row of seventeen gelatin silver prints depict artist Sung Neung Kyung taking bites from an apple, documenting a performance reflecting this commonplace action. The prints are monochrome, though the color and exposure vary between them, resulting in warmer, cooler, darker, or ligh...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Documenting his performance "Logic of Place", these four black-and-white images are chromogenic prints by artist Lee Kun-Yong, photographed in 1976 and printed in 2019. Identical sizes, they measure just over 1 1/2 feet on each side and are arranged with two images stacked on top of each other, creating a grid of f...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: The installation "Newspapers: After 1st of June 1974" is the aftermath of a monthlong performance by the artist Sung Neung Kyung in 1974, created by cutting sections of printed text out of the Korean newspaper Dong-a ilbo. During the performance, using a razor blade, Sung precisely excised blocks of Korean text, re...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Jung Kangja’s mixed-media installation "Kiss Me" beckons the viewer with a wide-mouthed, toothy grin. First exhibited in 1967, this installation was refabricated in 2001. It measures 4 feet tall by 6 1/2 feet wide and 1 1/2 feet deep. In this freestanding sculpture, blush-pink plaster forms full lips with a promine...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: This oil on canvas by Ha Chong-Hyun from 1967 is called "White Paper on Urban Planning 67". A thin wooden frame painted light gray surrounds this square painting measuring just over 3 1/2 feet tall and wide. The solid dark-blue background accentuates the bold colors and geometric forms dominating most of the canvas...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: In Kim Kulim’s "The Meaning of 1/24 Second", a series of short video clips are collaged together to create this 9-minute silent color video from 1969. None of the clips remain on-screen for more than a few seconds—most for less than a second—creating a dizzying succession of imagery intended to evoke the dramatic a...

Curator Kyung An discusses the international reach of Korea's Experimental artists.  Transcript Kyung An: I’m Kyung An, Associate Curator of Asian Art, and organizer of this exhibition, "Only the Young". We’re on Tower Level 5, in a gallery titled, “The Global Village.” This section showcases Experimental artworks that were at the forefront of the global avant-garde art world, including Lee Kun-Yo...

Curator Kyung An examines how artistic experimentation evolved amid Korea's changing sociopolitical scene of the 1970s. Transcript Kyung An: I’m Kyung An, Associate Curator of Asian Art, and organizer of this exhibition, Only the Young. We’re on Tower Level 4, in a gallery titled, “The Logic of Resistance.” In the 1970s, artists went beyond the 1960's rejection of traditional Korean arts seen on L...

Curator Kyung An shares insights on the artist collectives featured in Tower Level 2, whose rejection of traditional Korean arts marked the beginning of the Experimental art movement.  Transcript Kyung An: I’m Kyung An, Associate Curator of Asian Art, and organizer of this exhibition, "Only the Young". We’re on Tower Level 2, in a gallery titled “A New Beginning.” This gallery presents the initial...

Curator Kyung An welcomes you to the exhibition.  Transcript Kyung An: Welcome to "Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s", an exhibition dedicated to the genre-defying Korean artists and collectives who boldly sought experimentation to confront and reimagine their ever-shifting reality. Only the Young takes place on three levels of the Guggenheim’s tower galleries. It features ove...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: The first impression of "Work 73-13" by Ha Chong-Hyun is a stark contrast of materials that evokes a bleak and somber feeling, referencing the post–Korean War urban and political landscape of 1973, when this was created. Horizontally oriented, it measures about 4 feet tall by 8 feet wide, and the artist used barbed...

Join curator Megan Fontanella as she unveils details of this painting. Transcript Megan Fontanella: This lively painting "Fourteenth of July" from 1901 captures the French national holiday that commemorates the fall of the Bastille amidst social unrest in 1789. Here in Picasso’s painting, the dizzying crowd presses forward and is largely composed of featureless blurs of color. And yet, hints of in...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: "Courtesan with Hat", from 1901, is an oil painting on paperboard by Pablo Picasso measuring just over two feet high by one and a half feet wide. Thick dabs of paint in short brushstrokes alternate directions throughout the painting, creating a lively and animated surface. A feminine-presenting figure at the center...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Pablo Picasso painted this work, now titled "Woman in Profile", in 1901, likely for his exhibition at the Vollard gallery in Paris. Oil on paperboard, it measures just over one and a half feet tall by one foot wide. This work features vibrant blends of yellows, oranges, whites, and greens that are softened by the w...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: This "Self-portrait" by Pablo Picasso was painted in Paris in late 1901. Oil on canvas, it measures about two and a half feet tall by two feet wide. In it, Picasso gazes out at us, the viewers, with his shoulders at a slight angle. His body fills the frame from the center to where his arm and shoulder reach the rig...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: "Jardin de Paris (Design for a Poster)" is a work on paper in ink and watercolor by Pablo Picasso. It measures just over two feet high by one and a half feet wide and was made in 1901 as a prospective design for the Parisian dance hall le Jardin de Paris. Four dancers facing us are featured on a stage. Picasso depi...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: This small drawing by Pablo Picasso, titled Absinthe Drinker, measures about five inches high by eight inches wide. The work was made around 1901 with black and orangish-red crayons on cream-colored paper. Loose dark outlines indicate a round table with a tall carafe on the lower-right side of the composition. On t...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Pablo Picasso created this oil painting on cardboard in Paris in 1901. "The Diners" measures about one and a half feet high by two feet wide. In the upper-left quadrant of this painting, two figures are seated at a large table covered in a white tablecloth. The table tips forward at an awkward angle and almost fill...

Access a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Marilee Talkington: Pablo Picasso seems to move toward us out of the darkness in this powerful "Self Portrait (Yo)", from 1901. It measures about one and a half feet high by a foot wide and is oil paint on cardboard. Picasso’s head and torso fill the composition. His body is centered, shoulders reaching the left and right edges, with...