2009.3.27
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Despite the long-held wishes of its fans here, Rolling Stones has yet to give a show in Korea. The possibility of a future visit is unfortunately slim, given that the graying band has been talking about a "last concert" since the 90s and that they are among the highest paid gigs in the world.
Well, this won't be anything close to a concert but fans can perhaps find some relief in an exhibition.
The exhibition "stART me up! Art Inspired by the Rolling Stones," running at Gallery CHA in Tongui-dong, central Seoul, displays art and memorabilia related to the British rock band. The small-scale show is the country's first exhibition to feature the band.
While the band's greatest hits play in the background, visitors can look at posters from its early days and different visual images the band used for promotional purposes during its career that spans five decades.
Many famed artists helped the band create its posters and album cover images. It was Andy Warhol who designed the cover of "Sticky Fingers," which was the band's first album after the members established their own record company, Rolling Stones Records, in 1971.
Viewers will also find at the exhibition many items with the band's signature logo, "The Tongue and Lip Design," created by John Pasche.
For their concerts and tours, the band always hired top notch photographers like Gered Mankowitz and Jim Marshall to document their on- and off- stage lives on the road. Photographs capturing the younger days of each member might have some fans carrying their thoughts back to the past.
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Some of the exhibits are from Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery and V!P's gallery in the Netherlands, but most items on display belong to Kariem Hamed, an individual collector currently residing in Korea.
Hamed, a young Dutch collector in his early thirties, was born long after the Rolling Stones' debut in 1963. But while he may not be one of the band's earliest fans, he is definitely one of the biggest, having been to more than 60 of the band's concerts.
Ever since his first encounter at a Rolling Stones club show in Amsterdam in 1995, he fell in love with the band. Since then, he started collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia from other collectors, auctions, and even from the actual crew members.
"I love the magic of how the legendary members play, and the energy that comes from the band. It is even addicting. I hope the Korean public will get to see them perform before they get too old," said Hamed, who has been in Korea for about a year and is working at ING Life Insurance Korea.
The exhibition runs through April 10 at Gallery CHA in Tongui-dong, central Seoul. Admission is 1,000 won. For more information, call (02) 730-1700 or visit www.gallerycha.com
By Park Min-young
(claire@heraldm.com)
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