Permanent home opens for Paik Nam-june artworks

YONGIN, South Korea, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- A permanent museum opened Wednesday for the works of Paik Nam-june, the Korean-born American pioneer of video art, displaying some 60 pieces characterizing his legacy.

The 5,600-square-meter Nam June Paik Art Center, located 50km south of Seoul in Yongin, was designed by Kirsten Schemel, a young German architect whose blueprint was chosen from among 430 competitors. Key features include a screen facade consisting of several layers of reflective and printed glass.

Two five-story
museum houses exhibiton halls, video archives and multi-purpose halls.
Paik, who died in 2006 at the age of 74, stunned the world in 1963 with a piece
that exhibited a dozen randomly assorted television sets whose screen images were
deliberately distorted with magnets.
Born in Seoul in 1932 and trained as a composer and pianist in childhood, Paik
sought to expand his artistic expressions by incorporating different genres into
his work. He joined the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, a network of artists and
designers known for blending divergent disciplines.
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