3 min read · 05 Sep 2024
Anicka Yi, Another You (2024). Copyright the artist. Courtesy Leeum Museum of Art
Two works by Lee Bul, the in demand South Korean artist, sold at Lehmann Maupin’s booth for $210,000 and $190,000 on Frieze Seoul’s opening day. But initially “the buzz was louder than sales were strong" at the fair, reports The Art Newspaper.
A painting by Nicolas Party, who has a solo exhibition at Hoam Art Museum, near Seoul, was snapped up at Hauser & Wirth’s booth as Frieze, Kiaf Seoul starts off in “cautious mode”, reports Korea Herald.
A Yoo Youngkuk painting was sold for $1.5m by PKM Gallery, leading the early big-ticket sales at the fair, Artsy reports.
Anicka Yi’s solo show opens at Leeum Museum of Art, featuring eye-catching new works plus her Kelp Pods first shown in Venice, reports Ocula.
Lee Kang-So has joined Thaddaeus Ropac, which plans the veteran Korean artist’s first show with the gallery in its Seoul space in spring 2025.
In other news
Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Art could open by 2028 after the city gave the greenlight to the project, which is backed by philanthropist Elaine Wynn and LACMA director Michael Govan, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"'My work is about the thingness of light itself,’ James Turrell told Almine Rech, who will present the artist’s next show in her Paris space."
- Art Unplugged