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Sun Mu, Craving, 2011 |
A just-opened Wende Museum show is unexpectedly topical. "Upside-Down Propaganda: The Art of North Korean Defector Sun Mu" presents 15 crisply reductive paintings on the theme of borders. Sun Mu was trained as a propaganda poster artist for North Korea. He defected in 1998, ultimately settling in South Korea. His name is a pseudonym meaning "no borders."
Craving shows a rooster hopping over a border wall, or fence, or bloodbath.
Flower suggests that ideological experiments are rooted in blood.
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Sun Mu, Flower, 2015 |
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