Wrapping up last week, "Where are all the heroes?" was an art exhibition in Ulsan, Korea, developed by a relatively new collaborative, the International Artists Community (IAC).
The group has been up and running for roughly a year and a half and has earned the interest of the Korean art community. IAC serves many functions/priorities, but notable among them, is to expose supporters of the South Korean art community to local talents inspired not only by local tastes, but by western artistry as well.
"Where are all the heroes?" covered all sorts of the characters, role models, and cultural icons as they relate to cultural identity and service to others (or at least, the appearance of doing such). The exhibition ran from May 8th through May 28th. The gallery's wide scope is an interesting snapshot of IAC's make-up, a sixty-person membership sufficiently eclectic in representing some seventeen countries and just about every medium available.
"There are very, very deep cultural differences between Korean society and Western society," Richard Beaumont, founder of the International Artists Community, commented to The Korea Herald in an interview. But that doesn't preclude a love of art. Animators, painters, and sculpture artists from the United States, the UK, and Ireland, among other places, contributed to "Where are all the heroes?" Contributors, for example, included Lilit Soelter, an Armenian expressionist painter; Wilfred Lee, a Seoul-based animator, teacher, and concept artist; and Baumont, himself a painter. There were roughly a dozen artists who contributed to the exhibition, in addition to performance art, such as poetry readings, Animation Insider reported.
