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[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

A new exhibit in Seoul shows what a Pyongyang apartment looks like, Guno Park has master the art of subway drawing, Channel News Asia explores the rise in demand for North Korean works of art, and North Korean expert Nicholas Bonner demystifies the DPRK's visual culture.

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"A new exhibit reveals what apartment life is like for elite North Koreans"

Getting inside the world's most secretive state is next to impossible for the average citizen, but a new exhibit at Seoul's Dongdaemun Design Plaza is at least able to give visitors a glimpse, a peek into what an average apartment is like in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. "We decided to create a model house because it's the easiest way to understand what life is like in North Korea", said one of the installation's designers, Calvin Chua.

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"Subway Drawing: Guno Park, Animation, and the Line"

Having spent years in New York's underground, Guno Park has developed a keen eye for slumbering subway passengers. Park is a somewhat unusual sketch artist who "taps into somatic experience of the subway rider" and whose process, according to writer Adam Beal, "more closely resembles animation than figure drawing; his drawings lean forward into life". Click on through to the Brooklyn Rail to find out more about Park, his process and what inspires him, as well as catch some of his incredible subway sketches.

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"White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up"

According to Park Young-jeong, a researcher at the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, the "Chinese have begun collecting art, and North Korean art is much easier and cheaper for them to obtain". Mansudae Art Studio in North Korea is the hub of the country's art production with thousands of artist at work trying to see the growing demand; "Now more than ever we need avenues like art to create understanding between North Korea and the rest of the world", said Ji Zhengtai.

...READ ON CHANNEL NEWS ASIA

"Designing a dictatorship: North Korean graphics – in pictures"

North Korean expert Nicholas Bonner explores the DPRK's visual culture and offers new insight into this "isolated, fiercely ideological society". In this post on The Guardian, you'll find a dozen images from the DPRK, including postcards, propaganda posters, sweet wrappers, comic book covers and more. "The graphics have developed largely independently of the outside world and they now have a much more assured Korean style".

...READ ON THE GUARDIAN

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