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Curating, Writing, Making things Happen. Paris. Sometimes Seoul.
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a year ago

New year, New beginnings.
Curatorial Researcher at the Park Seo Bo Foundation.
Honoured and excited to carry on this new role.
❤️🇰🇷 taken in Seoul, Korea by @cenestpasvale

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2 years ago

Teaser is out! Come celebrate with us on pre-opening week if you’re in Venice, or during public days from the 20th of April!

Lee Bae – La Maison de la Lune Brûlée
Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
20.4 – 24.11.2024
Wilmotte Foundation, Cannaregio 3560

curated by Valentina Buzzi
organised by the Fondation d’Entreprise Wilmotte and the Hansol Foundation/ Museum SAN
in collaboration with Johyun Gallery
supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Italy, the Korean Cultural Center in Italy, the Embassy of Italy in Seoul, the Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul, the City of Cheongdo, Perrotin, Esther Schipper Gallery, and Fabriano. La Bella Carta dal 1264
The exhibition is part of the special program for the 140 years of cultural relations between Italy and Korea

#BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere #LeeBae #CollateralEvent #LaMaisondelaLuneBrûlée #MoonhouseBurning #KoreanArt
@cenestpasvale @fondationwilmotte @museumsan_official @johyungallery @italyinkorea_ @koreainitaly @iicseoul @istitutoculturalecoreano @perrotin @estherschippergallery @fabriano1264 @wearemayvenice by @cenestpasvale

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3 years ago

September in a nutshell by @cenestpasvale

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9 days ago

I am very much honoured and delighted to share that my curatorial essay on @leebae.art has been included in the forthcoming monograph “Lee Bae: Ultimate Form” published by @rizzolibooks edited by Rosa Maria Salvo, and realised with the support of @johyungallery

I have to write an enormous thank you for the trust in including my words and my thoughts in such an important publication on one of the Korean artists that is most dear to me, and to whom I feel grateful everyday for having the opportunity to work with.

This writing is an adaptation of my original essay written for the Venice Biennale, where I look into the depth of myth, ritual, and folk heritage in connection with modernity. The question that always stands is about how the past defines us, and how it is shaped, translated, and moulded by artists to contribute in thinking about the future. A question I am building my entire Ph.D. thesis on, little by little.

Nietzsche wrote “only a horizon encompassed with myth rounds off to unity”, and I love this sentence very much. This text unfolds around that notion, and is enriched by the influence of the great minds I owe my ideas to: Mircea Eliade, David Lowenthal, Byung-Chul Han, amongst others.

Anyway, without further ado, as always, my writing is yours, go to your favourite bookstore to find it !

(Video is me at Frieze Seoul being all emotional while looking at the book for the first time, a real pinch-me moment :))) ) taken in Seoul, South Korea by @cenestpasvale

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I have always been interested in finding threads where they wouldn’t be obvious or easy to find. Partly curiosity, partly professional deformation. In curating and diplomacy, we build bridges between cultures, ideas and societies through moments that define a dialogue.

The world today is as hyperconnected as it is divided. For six years, I have sat at the threshold between places, observing, sometimes doing, and thinking about how to build bridges in liminal territories.

Art and diplomacy have always been intertwined. Art depicts reality as it exists, as it is feared or desired, but also gives us a way to exchange, understand and tell stories about ourselves. What better medium to share who we are?

There are few occasions when, at opposite sides of a thread that does not yet exist, two artists walk a parallel path without knowing it. Andrea Francolino, Italian, and Yeesookyung, Korean, arrived at the edge of this dialogue through very different paths, yet both arrived at the same word: a crack.

Crepa in Italian, geum in Korean—a word meaning both crack and gold. A crack not as rupture, but as an opening; a transformative word. Both artists use discarded materials, giving them new life.

A “what if” became the moment I decided to bring this dialogue to life.

Italy at Frieze, organised by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, is the stage for this encounter, honouring the enduring relationship between art and diplomacy.

The Golden Trace is the title I gave to this year’s dialogue. A trace is fleeting, yet defining. Every encounter leaves one; it is our own doing that gives it the possibility of becoming golden.

There are many people I need to thank for this path. Thank you to Bvlgari and Shawn Lee for trusting us with this project; to the artists and the wonderful galleries, Mazzoleni and Massimo De Carlo, for supporting us; to Andrea Ferrara and Erika Sfascia, my partners in crime; and to Lavinia Mustapha for being the most supportive and talented friend.

@italyinkorea_ @iicseoul @bvlgari @friezeofficial

Infinite thanks to @yeesookyung_ @andrea_francolino @mazzoleniart @massimodecarlogallery

Photo: Minsu Kang taken in Seoul, South Korea by @cenestpasvale

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My greatest honour of this week has been presenting the newly opened @parkseobo.museum to guests from all over the world during the art week. Working alongside the Foundation and its incredible team over the last (almost) 2 years has been one of the things i cherish the most and i feel so grateful about. This last month and specifically these last days were such a recharge in understanding my journey and looking back at the relationship i have built with Korea over the last 6 years. I will continue my very best to work hard and devote myself as a curator and as an art professional to honour this path and the deep connection that everyday creates a thread between me, an Italian born and raised, to a land that is so far from my birthplace but that has welcomed me with open arms, that has allowed me to grow together, and has finally become my second home ❤️

너무너무 감사합니다

#parkseobomuseum #박서보미술관 #seoulartweek

Photo by @tingtingyang_lens 📸 taken in 박서보재단 by @cenestpasvale

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“The Look is A Li(k)e”, the Italian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju Biennale, opens this week.

Does appearance reflect reality, or is it something we perform? At a time when global trends increasingly shape people and objects to look alike, the exhibition’s title frames ‘look’ as both a digitally approved ‘like’ and a socially constructed ‘lie.’ Appearance emerges not as a passive reflection of reality, but as a force that actively shapes perception, recognition, and belonging. Five artists from Italy and Korea take up that question.

Davide Stucchi @davidestucchi
SAGG Napoli @sagg_napoli
Raffaela Naldi Rossano @raffaelanaldirossano
Ru Kim @rupauls.hair
Dew Kim @dew_needs_you

Curated by Irene Campolmi @irene_campolmi

Exhibition Team
Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale
Soyoung Kwon @soyoung__so
Tobias Permin

Visual Identity & Graphic Design
MAJOR MINORITY (@majorminority_)

5 September 2026–14 February 2027
Donggok Museum
37 Eodeung-daero 529beon-gil, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju
Open 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (last admission at 5:30 pm) · Closed Mondays

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“The Look is A Li(k)e”, 제16회 광주비엔날레 이탈리아관이 이번 주 문을 엽니다.

외형은 현실을 반영하는 것일까, 아니면 우리가 수행하는 것일까? 전 세계적인 트렌드가 사람과 사물을 점점 더 비슷한 모습으로 만들어가는 오늘날, 전시 제목은 ‘look’을 디지털상에서 승인되는 ‘like’이자 사회적으로 구성된 ‘lie’로 바라봅니다. 외형은 더 이상 현실을 수동적으로 반영하는 것이 아니라, 우리가 무언가를 인식하고 알아보며 소속감을 느끼는 방식을 적극적으로 형성하는 힘으로 작용합니다. 이탈리아와 한국의 다섯 작가는 이러한 질문을 각자의 방식으로 탐구합니다.

다비데 스투키 @davidestucchi
사그 나폴리 @sagg_napoli
라파엘라 날디 로사노 @raffaelanaldirossano
루 킴 @rupauls.hair
듀 킴 @dew_needs_you

큐레이터 이레네 캄폴미 @irene_campolmi

전시 팀
Valentina Buzzi @cenestpasvale
Soyoung Kwon @soyoung__so
Tobias Permin

비주얼 아이덴티티 및 그래픽 디자인
MAJOR MINORITY (@majorminority_)

2026. 9. 5. — 2027. 2. 14.
동곡뮤지엄
광주 광산구 어등대로 529번길 37
관람 시간 오전 10시 ~ 오후 6시 (5시 30분 입장 마감) · 휴관 월요일

#TheLookIsALike #GwangjuBiennale #광주비엔날레 #이탈리아관 by @cenestpasvale

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Work hard play hard
@friezeofficial by @cenestpasvale

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@parkseobo.museum officially opened its doors, and I could not be more proud and honoured to be part of this incredible team and family through a journey that I embarked almost two years ago now. What an honour to tour some fellow professionals and diplomats, and show them our new spaces and the depth of meaning of the museum and its program which breaths and reflects in multiple ways the figure and vision of Park Seo-Bo. Thanks for all the love and positive reception, I can’t wait to show you more along this journey 🤍 taken in 박서보재단 by @cenestpasvale

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2 months ago

A very meaningful opening this week.
I’m looking forward to seeing you soon in the next days at the @parkseobo.museum 💫 taken in Seoul, South Korea by @cenestpasvale

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My dear Seoul I’m back and it’s already a roller coaster taken in Seoul, Korea by @cenestpasvale

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