March 20~31 2019
At the last end of March, The Other Art Fair opened in Los Angeles. This fair was organized and presented by Saachi Art Group. The Saachi Art is one of the well-known online art galleries. This gallery was established in London around 1990 by a millionaire, Charles Saachi. Around 2002, the well-known curator Rebbeca Wilson joined "Saachi Online" and moved the main office to California, USA. The name of "Saatchi Online" has changed into "SaachiART. "Through rapid growth of the company, currently they have a network of more than 100 countries and is connected to more than 10,000 artists and they are working on paintings, sculptures, designs, photos, and art advisory. They are one of the biggest online dealers for total arts. The famous magazine "DECOR" has selected this company as one of the Best Online Art Gallery 30. The Sacchi has planned and opened The Other Art Show. The purpose of this fair is to find young and talented new artists, give them opportunities to meet with clients, share main subjects and even try to sell their works. This fair will be continued in London, Sydney, New York, and Chicago. The artworks in the fair, which was held for the third time this year, were selected by more than 140 artists from around the world who were selected through rigorous screening. In particular, 4 Korean artists participated in the art fair.
-Kyungsoo, Lee
Since she immigrated to California in 1984, she set up "ART HOUSE" where she taught many students on paintings and designs and raised some students as top-class artists. Nowadays, we can find her paintings infamous exhibitions and art galleries.
-Peggy Lee
Through long observation of lifestyles on social media, she got a shape of big spider web which is her main theme of drawings. Such shapes, she is trying to find spirits from an expression of human relationship. Also, the ending of a relationship will go to love.
-Young Shin
She made maximum minimized shapes of diagrams and modules and in pastel tone paint and transferred them to a canvas neatly.
-Suhyun Kim
She came from Korea directly, different from the other 3 painters. She received an invitation through an application on the Art Gallery Web site. The main theme in her works is the shapes of the endlessly connected ring and using this shape as a motive, she tried to express with a variety of colors politics, society, desires, and depth of emotions.
In her work, without faces, she drew two holding hands which show a one-sided view of a separated family. It is impressive how she described lines of the hands and the naked sight of emotions from a witness position. Particularly, this Art Fair is keeping very strict rules on the selection of Artists invited and consists of well-known judges such as Henry Art Gallery-Shamin Momin, Public Art Consultant-Jeniffer Lieu, Curious Inventory Academic Culture- A. Moret, and Mr.Sacchi with Rebbeca Wilson. Compared to the LA Art Show which opens annually, the scale would be a little bit smaller but there are advantages in which each artist has more opportunity to explain their work and their creative points to clients. Although I got an impression of the commercial side, I liked seeing bright, young new artists moving and talking energetically and trying new attempts. I am sure that they will grow up quickly for tomorrow. The final target of this kind of fair is as the chief curator of Saatchi Art and a well-known figure of painting arts, Rebbeca Wilson who has got a degree from Cambridge Univ. said in an interview with LA Times. This kind of new type of fair without interventions gallery will be a big event where "THIS KIND NEW FAIR CAN HELP DEMOCRATIZE ART WORLD". Evidently, this extraordinary attempt will surely have a great impact on the discovery and sale of new artists in the art world and will change the distribution of new artworks.]
* 《쿨투라》 2019년 5월호(통권 59호) *
