Taipei, Dec. 25 (CNA) The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMFA) and Korea's Gwanju Museum of Art (GMA) officially established a sister partnership to promote art development in the two countries, a Taiwanese official announced Tuesday.
Gwanju is symbolic in the development of Korean culture and democracy, as the city is the site of a civil demonstration and ensuing massacre in the 1980s and has long been a hotbed of Korean popular culture, said Wong Chin-chu, chairwoman of the Council of Cultural Affairs (CCA), at the signing ceremony.
An exhibition of Taiwanese contemporary art will be held alongside the Gwangju Biennale in September 2008, Wong added.
The two sides will collaborate on a wide range of projects, including exhibitions, academic research programs, exchange of curators and exchange of information, she said.
Park Ji-taek, president of the GMA and himself an oil painter, and Lim Jong-young, a GMA curator, also attended the signing ceremony.