True to the peripatetic life of the pioneer video artist Paik Nam-june, his ashes will be buried in several countries that were important for the Korean-born artist¡¯s career, including the U.S., Korea, and Germany. Paik¡¯s nephew, Ken Paik Hakuta, announced the funeral arrangements at a studio in SoHo, New York on Monday following Paik¡¯s death a day earlier.
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Visitors look at Paik Nam-june's ¡®Phiber Optik¡¯ at the Insa Art Center in Seoul on Tuesday afternoon amid news that the pioneering video artist died on Monday. The exhibition continues until Feb. 12.
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Local circumstances especially in Italy and Spain will determine how many countries will become Park¡¯s last resting place. In the U.S., the ashes will go to his studio in Manhattan, in Korea to the Paik Nam-june Museum now under construction in Gyeonggi Province, and in Germany in a wing of the Guggenheim Art Museum in Berlin. The interment is scheduled for Feb. 3. Park¡¯s family said there are plans for large-scale memorial services for the artist in February and March in Korea, the U.S. and Germany.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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