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By The Dartmouth Web Staff | 2/20/12 2:33pm

 



 


"Once, he glo­ri­fied the late North Ko­rean leader Kim Jong-il as a pro­pa­ganda artist in the Stal­in­ist na­tion. But as a free man liv­ing in the South, Song Byeok ridicules Kim by at­tach­ing the re­cently de­ceased’s smil­ing head to Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe’s body in a white dress or on a woman’s spaghetti-strap tank top.

The 42-year-old artist, orig­i­nally from Hwang­hae Province, North Korea, trav­eled a tor­tu­ous road to ar­rive in Seoul. His first at­tempt to cross the Tumen River in 2000 ended in im­pris­on­ment and tor­ture. His sec­ond at­tempt two years later was suc­cess­ful.

Now, a decade later, Song trav­els again, this time to At­lanta, Ga. His in­ter­na­tional debut show “Song Byeok: De­par­ture” opened Fri­day at the Goat Farm in the Amer­i­can city. A total of 20 acrylic paint­ings, in­clud­ing six pieces not pre­vi­ously seen by the pub­lic, are on dis­play there.

 

COUR­TESY OF SONG BYEOK


 

...​Gregory Pence, a 2010 Ful­bright re­searcher in Seoul dis­cov­ered Song at “For­ever Free­dom.” Deeply moved, Pence formed a group solely ded­i­cated to spread­ing Song’s ideas to a world au­di­ence with the help of vol­un­teers and Mike Lee, a pro­fes­sional video­g­ra­pher.

“The more eye­balls we can get to see Song Byeok’s works of art, the bet­ter,” said Pence on this op­por­tu­nity. “His art un­der­stand­ably flows from a very raw and wounded place that runs con­trary to his usual soft-spo­ken and cheer­ful dis­po­si­tion. Song re­tains his sense of op­ti­mism, know­ing one day North Ko­re­ans will learn the truth about the out­side world.”

Pence con­tacted his alma mater Dart­mouth Col­lege to sup­port his ef­forts to bring Song to the United States. Vic­to­ria Moy, co-pres­i­dent of the Dart­mouth Asian Pa­cific Amer­i­can Alumni As­so­ci­a­tion (DA­PAAA), came from New York to the open­ing and spoke about the im­por­tance of the com­mu­nity’s sup­port for Song’s art and his artis­tic jour­ney to free­dom and ways to par­tic­i­pate through Kick­starter.*


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