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Fore more than 25 years, South Korean artist Kimsooja has focused her practice on a specific element in her country's visual culture: the bottari, a colorful bundle of cloth used to wrap and transport items by hand. This year, the 62-year-old artist has translated the handheld bottari to an urb...

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Veröffentlicht in:Wallpaper (London) 2019-11, p.153
1. Verfasser: St Louis, Andy
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
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Art exhibits
Installation art
Kimsooja (Artist)
Public art
Visual artists
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Zusammenfassung:Fore more than 25 years, South Korean artist Kimsooja has focused her practice on a specific element in her country's visual culture: the bottari, a colorful bundle of cloth used to wrap and transport items by hand. This year, the 62-year-old artist has translated the handheld bottari to an urban scale, wrapping the French city of Poitiers in a bundle of public art installations that activate its medieval architecture and foreground its rich history.
ISSN:1364-4475