| Tate Modern Turbine Hall | Global Fashion, Art & Design | | | 
What's new to the Aesthetica website? This week, we look
at Cecilia Vicuña’s powerful new installation in the Tate Modern
Turbine Hall, alongside new surveys of global fashion, art and design.
 | The Korean Wave South Korean media is consistently breaking records – from Squid Game to Gangnam Style. A new show in London focuses on the pop culture phenomenon known as ‘hallyu’ – or ‘Korean Wave’ – has spread worldwide across music, cinema, art, fashion and more. Curator Rosalie Kim explains: “ it has transformed the country’s image from one devastated by the Korean War to that of a leading cultural powerhouse in the era of digital culture today.” |
|  | Global Impact
“To showcase all fashions across such a vast region would be to attempt the impossible,” says Dr Christine Checinska, Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion at the V&A. The museum has launched a landmark exhibition surveying the “creativity, ingenuity and unstoppable global impact” of design from the continent. It features 45 designers from 20 countries, positioning the 20th century vanguard alongside today’s trailblazers.
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|  | Neon Elements Neon was discovered in 1898. A colourless noble gas, it emits a distinctive flame-coloured hue when placed in an electrical field. On Earth, neon is rare, but across the universe, it is one of the most widely-found cosmic elements. As such, it feels at once nostalgic and futuristic: Americana meets Blade Runner-esque dystopia. New Mexico-based artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) uses neon to consider human experience in the modern age. Read more » |
|  | Sharing, Connecting, Healing Steve McQueen. Glenn Ligon. Rashid Johnson. Tyler Mitchell. Virgil Abloh. These are just some of the creative minds featured in a landmark publication from author and conceptual artist Glenn Lutz (b. 1988). Borne from a desire to “create a work in which Black men came together to open up and share their experiences,” Lutz’s book delves into key themes related to Black male identity, masculinity and mental well-being. Read more » |
|  | Mourning and Memory Dead forests. Broken communities. Lost languages. Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s (b. 1948) new Tate Turbine Hall installation is an elegy to disappearing traditions, environments and peoples. Described as “an act of mourning for the destruction of forests, the subsequent impact on climate change, and the violence against Indigenous people,” it comprises two giant 27-metre-tall sculptures that hang from the ceiling, accompanied by a soundscape.
Read more » | | | Image Credits:
1. Mirage Stage by Nam June Paik. Seoul, South Korea, 1932 – Miami, USA, 2006 © Nam June Paik Estate.
2. Models holding hands, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019 by Stephen Tayo. Courtesy Lagos Fashion Week. 3. Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu Installation View at Tate Modern 2022. Photos © Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood / Sonal Bakrania) 4. Ghanaian-American II, 2019 © Lloyd Foster. Courtesy of the artist. 5. Bruce Nauman Black Marble Under Yellow Light, 1981/1988 “la Caixa“ Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Barcelona © 2022 Bruce Nauman / SIAE Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York | |
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