Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

Exhibition catalog

2023 

offset lithograph, sewn in sections and cased

210 x 270 mm, 288 pp

This is a catalog to a major retrospective on the subject jointly organized by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and first presented at the former in Seoul. The thick outlined title lettering was inspired by a poster for an earlt 1970s Korean Avant Garde Association (AG) exhibition designed by one of the represented artists, Song Burnsoo. The cover reproduces a photograph of 「Happening with Plastic Umbrella and Candle」 (1967), one of the first “happenings” in Korean art history. The coarse halftone screen effect accentuates the documentary nature of the image.

• Project type:
• publication

• Typeset in:
• AG Superblack Gothic
• Founders Grotesk Condensed
• Jibaek
• MT Grotesque
• Sandoll Jeongche
• custom letterform

• Printed on:
• Artizen
• glossy coated paper
• smooth uncoated paper

• Printed by:
• Top Process

• Commissioned by:
• Kang Soojung
• Kyung An
• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum