With a number of former students of Paik and other Paik-experts, a one-night-long homage was held in honor of the work and personality of the great master of “homage art,” who than recently passed away in Florida. In addition to the screenings of Paik´s video pieces and documentations as well as to the lectures by Slavko Kacunko, Dawn Leach and Ivo Dekovic, Sabine Kacunko have used the surface of her URANKER-Sculpture as the projection-surface for displaying of photo- and video-footage from Nam June Paiks work and life. By providing valuable video and photographic materials related to Paik, his former students payed their personal tributes to their teacher.
Nam June Paik is considered one of the most significant and innovative artists of the 20th century and the “father of video art.” From the time of his appointment as a professor at the local art academy, Paik’s artistic and pedagogical activities were centered in Düsseldorf. Even after his retirement in 1995, the artist—born in Korea, educated in Japan and Germany, and recently deceased in Florida—remained closely connected to his friends, students, and numerous admirers in Düsseldorf and throughout Germany.
