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"Londoners (and of course their guests) can see the finest examples of modern artwork from Democratic (??/^^) Korea at an exhibition in the heart of the capital. Works by north Korean People's Artists can be viewed for the first time in Britain..", london communists (^^) announced July, 31.

Artists, Arts and Culture

of North Korea

Cool Hunting wrote two weeks ago, just a day after the opening ceremony:

It's not often that the flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) flies over London's Pall Mall, a few hundred yards from Trafalgar Square, but it was this week during a rare exhibit of North Korean artwork from the isolated nation's "people's artists," a select group that numbers less than a dozen. One attendee of the opening, which featured North Korean diplomats and their wives, described the scene: "There were loads of people, it was really packed. The embassy was there and some old (British) hanger-on Communists (*)—you know the type, with their bad-fitting cheap suits and beards—they were being a bit weird and annoying people."

The artwork itself, all from the famed Mansudae studio, ranges from original propaganda posters (unsigned), ceramics, pastoral landscapes and "jewel" art—a form of painting made from crushed minerals that are bountiful in the mountainous Korean peninsula. Over two years in the making, the show is a chance to get a peek at a rich culture, including top North Korean artists Jong Chang Mo, Son U Yong and Hwang In Je...

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/07/artists_art_and.php

* ..Exhibition of Art Works from the DPRK (RCPB/ML)

Related:

☞ Trendy London Welcomes North Korean Art (A. Times, 8.01)

Artists, Arts and Culture of the D.P.R.K. runs at La Galleria, 5b Pall Mall, London SW1Y 4UY, until September 2.
(La Galleria is in Pall Mall, at the entrance of the Royal Opera Arcade, one of the earliest arcades in London and just minutes away from Trafalgar Square and the West End.)