CHARACTERS, Exhibition Running Museum, Venice

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CHARACTERS:

Calligraphy and typography: South Korea and United States

From 8 November to 11 January 2026

Running Museum

Piazza San Marco, 52, Venice

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Within the framework of the East West Calligraphy exhibition, the Library of the Correr Museum presents for 2025 the exhibition CHARACTERS, hosted in the Sala delle Quattro Porte of the Correr Museum. The exhibition brings together four contemporary artists from South Korea and the United States, juxtaposing their works with ancient documents from the Library. The unifying theme is phonetic scripts: the Korean alphabet Hangeul and the Latin alphabet. The works of Kim Doo Kyung, Kang Byung-In, and Thomas Ingmire propose writing as a visual and musical gesture; Amos Paul Kennedy jr. instead explores its communicative and social power through movable type printing. The exhibition thus becomes a dialogue between the human and intimate dimension of handwritten signs and the communicative strength of printed words. The Korean artists work with the Hangeul alphabet, created in the 15th century to make writing accessible to the people. In their calligraphies, forms of vowels and consonants become vehicles of emotions and cosmological concepts, uniting gesture, mind, and breath in a meditative action that transforms writing into a spiritual practice. In the Western context, Thomas Ingmire renews the calligraphic tradition by exploring the dialogue between poetry, music, and graphic form. Conversely, Amos Paul Kennedy jr. uses typography to spread social messages inspired by civil rights: his colorful and incisive posters transform words into instruments of collective communication. Alongside contemporary works, the exhibition proposes, through the comparison with ancient documents, a dialogue with the history of writing, establishing a connection between two graphic codes born from theoretical reflections and precise cultural intentions: the Hangeul alphabet, developed in the 15th century in Korea, and the humanistic script, flourishing in Renaissance Europe and based on the Carolingian script of the 9th-10th centuries.

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CHARACTERS:

Calligraphy and typography: South Korea and United States

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