From Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner to NFT Talismans All in One Place

LALA Fair Highlighting Antique Art Lighting
At Sejong Center Art Museum Until the 16th

As interest in traditional culture grows, an antique art fair featuring leading domestic antique art galleries will be held.

Work by artist Shin Yeon-sook.
Photo by Lala Fair

The Korea Antique Art Association, Inter Art Channel, and Duson Gallery Seoul announced on the 10th that they will hold the antique art fair "LALA (Living Antique & Living Art)" at the Seoul Sejong Center Art Museum until the 16th.

This event was organized to bring antique art into modern daily life and propose a new lifestyle. This is the second fair with the theme of antique art since the 2019 "Living Antique Fair."

About 20 representative domestic antique art galleries will participate to exhibit and sell antique artworks.

This event especially selects the "Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner" owned by the National Buyeo Museum as the brand icon and introduces it. A digital installation work using high-definition video footage of the actual gilt-bronze incense burner displayed at the exhibition hall will be presented. Miniature products of the gilt-bronze incense burner made with 3D printing technology will also be showcased. On the 11th at 2 p.m., a special lecture will be held by Shin Gwang-seop, former director of the National Buyeo Museum, who planned and conducted the excavation of the Neungsan-ri site in Buyeo in 1993, where the Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner was unearthed.

Living & Antique Fair view. [Photo by Lala Fair]

A special exhibition connecting past and present time has also been prepared. Designer Yang Tae-o presents the practicality and potential of pottery, one of the fading objects, through the themed exhibition "The Role and Attempts of Collectors." It was planned to explore the possibilities of past relics that could be left behind amid changing times and to rediscover their value as contemporary cultural assets.

An event issuing talismans wishing for good fortune and happiness as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will also take place. The works of contemporary artists Kim Jong-won and Shin Yeon-sook will be presented as digital talisman NFTs. The digital talisman NFTs will be stored in the buyer’s MetaMask wallet, and a handkerchief engraved with the same pattern will be provided together. Additionally, NFT lectures for the general public unfamiliar with trading digital artworks as NFTs will be held during the event period.

A representative of the LALA Fair said, "We aim to newly highlight the exquisite artistry and outstanding metalcraft techniques embodied in the Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner, the essence of Baekje culture and Korea’s finest craftwork," adding, "Since various events illuminating how antique artworks such as wooden furniture and pottery were used in our daily lives have been prepared, we hope many people will visit."

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