Germany’s Kani Alavi, one of the artists featured at the 2018 DMZ Art & Design International Invitation Exhibition, showcases one of his artworks that depicts the Demilitarized Zone. (Corea Forum of Design)
By Xu Aiying and Sohn JiAe
The 2018 DMZ Art & Design International Invitation Exhibition, which kicked off on June 23 at the Odusan Unification Tower in Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do Province, showcases world artists’ paintings, photographs, calligraphy works and ceramics that depict the strip of land that runs across the Korean Peninsula, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
A total of 220 artists from 35 countries, including France, Canada and Poland, alongside 150 of their Korean counterparts, are sending messages of peace, unification, freedom and the environment through their artworks that embrace the historic strip of land that stretches across the peninsula.
Among the artworks on exhibit are poems about the DMZ by Polish poet Alicja Kuberska, and works about the DMZ by artists affiliated with Germany’s East Side Gallery. There are DMZ posters created by famous designers from around the world, too.
The exhibition runs until July 27.
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