In Where at Home – Paint or Die, Jochen Hiltmann provides an intimate portrait of the life and work of Song Hyun-Sook, the internationally-celebrated painter represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp. Describing Song Hyun-Sook’s youth in a preindustrial farming village in the mountains of South Korea, her experiences as a migrant worker in West Germany in the 1970s, her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, her accomplishments as a political activist, and her embodied practice of painting, Hiltmann considers how home, belonging, and cultural and national identity relate to fine art. Hiltmann shows how Song Hyun-Sook’s paintings bridge the traditions of East Asian calligraphy and European modernism, joining the art and culture of the East and the West, to reveal complexes of sensibilities one single brushstroke at a time. Richly illustrated with 17 color reproductions of some of Song Hyun-Sook’s recent paintings and 51 black-and-white images, this book offers unparalleled insight into the work of a profound and significant contemporary artist.weiterlesen