Nam June Paik valuation
Korean-born artist regarded as a founder of video art, known for his television sculptures.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was born in Seoul and trained as a classical musician, spending time in Japan and West Germany, where he joined the Fluxus collective and became friends with John Cage.
What a work by Nam June Paik is worth
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Bio
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was born in Seoul and trained as a classical musician, spending time in Japan and West Germany, where he joined the Fluxus collective and became friends with John Cage. His 1963 show Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, used magnets to distort the images on television sets. He moved to New York in 1964 and made performance works with the cellist Charlotte Moorman, among them TV Cello (1971). Other works include TV Buddha, in which a statue watches its own image, and Electronic Superhighway (1995), on permanent display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He shared the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and received the Kyoto Prize in 1998.
What comes to market is television sculptures and robots, drawings and painted works, and prints and multiples. Sculptures built from old cathode ray tube televisions need particular care: a buyer will ask whether they work, whether monitors or other parts have been replaced, what video source they use and whether a certificate comes with them. Electrical safety should be checked before anything is switched on. Prints and drawings should be checked for fading, foxing and creases.
At a glance
- Born
- 20 July 1932, Seoul
- Died
- 29 January 2006, Miami
- Movement
- Fluxus
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