The Worlds of Nam June Paik

Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue New York City
February 11-April 26, 2000

The Worlds of Nam June Paik is the first American retrospective of the Korean-born multimedia artist since 1982. This exhibition brings together the major artworks that define Paik's singular achievement. Through his sculptures, installations, videotapes, and projects for television, Paik recognized and realized the potential of video to become an artist's medium. The exhibition will allow audiences to experience the numerous ways in which Paik has treated the electronic image and expanded the definition of sculpture and installation art over the past four decades.
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The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a spectacular site-specific installation, Modulations in Synch (2000). It will feature laser projections cast onto the Rotunda ceiling, as well as laser projections that pass through an actual waterfall cascading from the top of the museum to the Rotunda floor. On the floor of the Rotunda will be an installation that employs more than 100 televisions, displaying a pulsing mix of Paik's video.
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The Worlds of Nam June Paik is an initiative of the Film and Media Arts exhibition program at the Guggenheim Museum. The goal of the program is to examine and represent, in innovative ways, the central role of media arts in defining global culture.

Achievement: non tradurre con ‘raggiungimenti’
site-specific: non tradurre ‘specifica per il luogo’
Rotunda: Rotonda
Modulations in Synch: lasciare in inglese ‘Modulations in Synch’
Ceiling: volta
Film and Media Arts: lasciare ‘Film and Media Arts’