“The first objects were musical instruments. “The Korean presence at the Met started in the 1880s,” said Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun, associate curator of Korean art at the museum. The Met’s show casts its gaze internally, looking at how the museum has collected and shown Korean art throughout its 153-year history. One of the most eye-catching pieces is Jung Kangja’s “Kiss Me” (1967/2001), a mouth-like mixed media sculpture framed by pink lips. The exhibition includes some 80 works by various practitioners of what has become known as Korean Experimental Art ( silheom misul), including Ha Chong-Hyun, Kim Kulim, Lee Kun-Yong and Sung Neung Kyung. “It opens up an opportunity to tell a more diverse and plural story than we’ve seen before.” An, a co-curator of the show with Kang Soojung of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. “There were multiple forms of art happening,” said Ms.
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