迵 ‘⦁⦁ڪ’
| ˂⦁⦁ڪ˃ [Nothing. Life. Object] 291x182cm, Oil on canvas, 2024
Ⱓ : 2024.09.10(ȭ)-09.28()
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: T. 02-725-2930, E-mail. gallery_now@hanmail.net
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ǰ ȭ ܸ ̸鿡 ҾȰ 㹫 īӰ ݿϸ, Ȱ ̴. ̼ [Exhibition introduction]
<Nothing, Life, Object> : At the Boundary of Life and Matter
Kim Young-sung's work expresses the essential thought of awe for all living things from a philosophical perspective.
The artist draws and draws again the mindless hearts that regard small creatures around humans as material, and records them as if writing a diary. He captures memories and emotions of the creatures he encountered in nature during his childhood and the animals he lived with in his work, and critically expresses the bleakness of modern society and the futility of modern people, where life is threatened and many things disappear due to the development of material civilization.
The coexistence of insects, fish, frogs, and other living things that are expressed more realistically than reality and materials such as glass, spoons, cloth, and metal is like watching a beautifully decorated advertisement or a well-directed modern civilization. Just as extreme beauty carries extreme anxiety and extreme perfection sometimes carries discomfort, the cold and seemingly perfect expressions in Kim Young-sung’s works contain the agony of modern people hidden in the perfect and happy life we pursue. The gorgeous colors and beauty of fish go beyond mere decorative elements and suggest the inherent value of life. However, the artificial environment of the glass cup shows a cross-section of how living things are separated from their original natural environment and placed under human control. The small creatures he draws resemble the appearance of modern people. We, living in the modern era, enjoy abundant lives with the benefits of highly developed material civilization, but we also feel a sense of loss from excessive materialism, including environmental pollution, destruction of the ecosystem, and depletion of resources.
The small fish trapped in glass and floating in space, the snail for whom the cold spoon is the whole world, and the frog sitting cramped on the metal make us feel a sense of kinship as if they are ‘me.’ Creatures that look stuffy and dangerous, but have a relaxed expression, whether intentional or not. . . “I am living well.” “I am not afraid.” It is delivered as a message of comfort from me living in the modern world.
Through this exhibition, the artist pictorially expresses how life and material collide and coexist in modern society, and artistically reveals the futility and sense of loss created by civilization, and the crisis facing living things.
His work sharply reflects the glamorous exterior of modern people and the anxiety and futility hidden behind it, and will provide deep thought and emotion to the audience.
-Gallery Now Lee Soon-shim-
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“Nothing ()⦁Life ()⦁Object (ڪ)”
Nothing () - Loss, Void, Nihilism
Life () - Organisms, Living, Existence
Object (ڪ) - Physics, Materials, Matters
This series express the modern society where lives are threatened and many things have been disappeared due to the advanced development of material civilizations. The coexistence of objects representing Life () and Object (ڪ) is shown as a piece of advertisement or a theatrical piece to analyze and depict the phenomenon cold-heartedly to express the desolation of modern society and nihilism of modern people and to reveal humans' negligence of life.
The structural beauty and mystic colors of living organisms or animals I either found or gathered in nature or purchased as a child gave me pleasure and memories. The tiny living things that are usually considered trivial existences in life yet make me stop for a while to contemplate.
These are insects, fish, frogs, etc that appear as the metaphors of Life (). I transferred animals that should be in nature, in cages, or in fish tanks onto silk fabric, into glass bottles, or onto metal dishes to create images where they are foreign and forced to coexist with others. The fabric, glass, and metal, the metaphors of Object (ڪ), show their physical properties through shine, projection, reflection, or refraction in front of the camera or in the canvas.
What is the meaning or value of living organisms in the modern civilization? What is the meaning of living organisms to humans? They exist with us in the same environment, but they are always faced as food or decorative elements in a lower hierarchy. Despite that they are living things with meaning and value of existence, the humans only use them for clear purposes when we have certain reasons. In the modern society, this structure is applied to the relationships between men, men and organization, or men and society. Humans, a living organism, is sometimes considered and used as a functional object.
The insects displayed on silk fabric, fish in a covered glass bottle, and frog on a metal spoon. They look beautiful, colorful, and stable in the captured moment, but the animals must have experienced highly stressful and anxious state as models. Humans today adorn themselves beautifully and seem to be living happy, stable lives, but their lives do not seem to be any different from the state of these animals as they are struggling to survive in a confined space that is completely exposed to others. I use tens of small brushes and insatiably struggle with small animals every night to create such cold-hearted yet painterly artworks that can convey this meaning or capture the beauty of living organisms.
- From Young-sung Kim's Artist Note –
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״ ڽ иϱ ͵ δ. ״ κб ġ , ϴ ǥ ϴ ´. ״ ̸ ڷ ʵ ο ϰ ü ؾ Ѵ.
۵ ͵鿡 ġ ‘’ ƴ . ״ 縦 ΰ ‘’criticism . ͵ Կ ǥ ÿ, ȸ ȭ ؼ ü δ. ״ ġ ڽ ǰ踦 .
۵ ν, ź ϰ Ż ǽ ȸ Ѵ. ִ Ű尡 ̴̰.
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[Criticism]
A Dedication to Small Things
— The Latest Work of Young-Sung Kim
<Nothing ()⋅Life ()⋅Object (ڪ)>
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In the latest work of artist Young Sung Kim, very small living organisms emerge as confident characters. He devotes infinite affection to the small, worthless things. He keeps them near his bed and shares his life with them. He not only feeds them, and he also provides the right environment for their survival. It has been since the mid 2000s. At first (from 2006), he lived with small insects with big horns. At some point, he changed to fish (from 2009). In the recent years, snails and frogs (from 2011) are capturing his sight. The title for this series is <Nothing⋅Life⋅Object>. He just lists ‘worthless things’, ‘living things’, and ‘lifeless objects’.
The living organisms he deals with these days are very small things that need a magnifying glass to be seen. The snail sitting on a small teaspoon is quite solemn. The red fish with splendid scales swimming in a glass of water is radiant and gem-like. The yellow frog and the green frog with exquisite patterns are like matured men of virtue. He expands them by 10-50 times in length and 100-2,500 times in size. They look like mundane things in his paintings, but they are actually very small.
Since his earlier years, the artist has had compassion in helplessly small things. He has focused on smaller shocking things with 3D structures rather than the elegant butterflies. During his exploration period in the 1990s, he drew relatively large things. He drew human bodies entangled and mashed together and the fragrances of objects or a couple of golfers playing golf in the golf course. Then, he turned to smaller things from the 2000s.
His latest series is a dedication to small things. His Artist Note tells you this. This has two aspects. One is the metaphor of living phenomena attributed to his interest in the unique structural beauty of small things. His concept is the awe of very small things that are usually negligible, but capture your eyes all of a sudden at some point to evoke your respect for life. Another reason he works with small things is because he intends to criticize the social trend to overestimate lifeless things, such as machines with functions, over living things with the modern civilizations and materialization. This is the root and premise of his latest work.
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With the artworks created on this background, Young Sung Kim presents his passionate exhibition. His perspective is extraordinary. He creates dramatic scenes that can only been seen in the antipodes far away with the eyes of ordinary people.
He intends to bring the small things into the world of perception to indirectly criticize the existence of humans considered unbearably light due to the material society and materialization we live in. To his eyes, we make the mistake to overlook the value of life which is even enjoyed by these little things. By doing so, the humans themselves lower their value into the existence of mere objects. They might look confident on the outside, but they have actually lost substance inside. It is as though they admit the fact that they are just nothing.
Furthermore, humans today depend on objects to look for the reason of existence, as the little organisms live in the gaps of materials to survive. Therefore, he believes that it is his mission to draw how small humans have become. The artist says:
I draw the other aspect of the modern society where lives are threatened and many things have been disappeared due to the advanced development of material civilizations. Handling the coexistence of objects representing Life () and Object (ڪ) is one of the methods. As a piece of advertisement or a theatrical piece is directed, I analyze the phenomenon cold-heartedly and draw it as is to express the desolation of modern society and the nihilism() of modern people.
( Quoted from the Latest Artist Note)
To draw this phenomenon, he brings in soft silk, glass containers, metal silverware, and strong things as toothed wheels to support the small living organisms. The support he uses is sometimes soft as silk with minimal reflection, but mostly highly reflective. The characteristics include big and strong penetration and refraction of light. Silk is the most preferred material of modern people who like something luxurious and soft. The durable and clear glass and metal represent the wide variety of materiality on which modern people depend. These build the foundation that makes the modern functionalism and materialism possible.
The artist uses them to support and shelter the small organisms that are nothing but dust. This is to emphasize the 'material awareness' of the modern society. Above all, this is to analyze the materialism of modern people elaborately and delicately. By drawing a small snail sitting on a stainless steel teaspoon in comfort, he dramatically shows the material comfort that modern people enjoy. This is an allegory to show that this comfort is only reserved for a while. With the colorful fish with red and yellow scales swimming in the glass of water with the flashy penetration, reflection, and refraction of light and the frogs in golden or emerald color on a toothed wheel or a spoon, he allegorically shows the moment of humankind enjoying the final probation. As silk is used to preserve merchandised objects, he uses silk to wrap an insect with bizarre-shaped horns to circuitously show that it is just a short nap in the cradle.
Here is his ultimate message: the modern people enjoy beautiful and colorful material comfort, but their existence is destined to be in anxiety. He firmly states with his latest work that no matter how colorfully humans ornament themselves for happiness, it only multiplies the lightness of their helpless beings that need to invest life just to preserve the ornaments. His latest work desperately delivers the message that this situation is a reserved fate.
He constantly struggles with small things to clarify his message. He has the passion to capture even the shady parts of them and devotes himself to depict the cold and light-emitting surfaces of lifeless materials. In order to do this, he has to fight with tens of tiny brush and take care of the safety of small organisms every night.
His latest work is the 'dedication' to small things. He uses the dedication to sharply criticize the refracted characters of modern society. He expresses endless sympathy in the value of life of small things, but becomes most bitter to criticize the materialization of modern society. He erects his world of art in the intersection of these two values.
He praises the mysteries of life, He indirectly criticizes the Disregard of life and material awareness of modern people through his latest work. This is the keyword of his latest exhibition.
-Kim, Bok-Young | Art Critic-
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YOUNG-SUNG KIM ( )
1973 Born in Seoul, Korea.
1997 Graduated from Department of Painting, College of Fine Art, Hongik University.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 HOBAN ARTRIUM Invitational, Gwangmyeong
2016 Redsea Gallery Invitational, Brisbane
2014 COOHAUS ART Invitational , New York
2013 Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul
2008 Gallery K Invitational, Seoul
2007 Gana Art Space, Seoul
1998 Korea Youth Biennale Invitational / Daegu Cultural Center, Daegu
1997 Do-ol Art Town Invitational, Seoul, etc over 30 times.
Art Fairs & Group Exhibitions
2023 Korean Hyperrealism Painting/ Ulsan Culture & Arts Center/ Ulsan
Borderline/ Geumsaem Museum, Busan
2022 Representation and Recurrence: Highlight/ Lotte Gallery, Dongtan
2022 I AM SORRY! I AM NOT REAL, MOM/ Jeju Museum Of Art, Jeju
2021 Best Of/ Galerie Felix Hoeller, Vienna
2020 Clear Vision/ MOCA LI, New York
ARTLIFE FEST/ Moscow Manege, Moscow
2019 Abstraction vs. Realism/ VW Contemporary, GreenwichCT
Mixed Media/ Menier Gallery, LONDON
2018 Splendid Moments/ Clayarch Museum, Gimhae
HYPERREALISM/ Museu Del Tabac, Andorra
Asia Contemporary Art/ Long Museum, Shanghai
2017 SEE: New Hyperrealism/ Hongik Museum Of Art, Seoul
A Sustaining Life/ Waterfall Gallery, New York
2016 Winter Show 2016 / Plus One Gallery, LONDON
Hyperrealism : Breathe Alive/ Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan
Summer Show/ Gallery Valentine, New York
2015 KULIM KIM, YOUNGSUNG KIM Two Artists Show / OCI Museum, Seoul
Fermented Souls / Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York
ART 2015- World Top Three Art Masters special booth / Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2014 ABFA GROUP EXHIBITION 1.0 / ANTHONY BRUNELLI FINE ARTS, New York
FEEL LIFE / Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York
Fish Painting Exhibition / Naeseolak Public Museum, Inje
2013 North Seoul Museum of Art Opening Exhibition / Seoul
The hare and The Tortoise Exhibition / Yangpyung Art Museum, Yangpyung
Art Hamton / Benefits Guild Hall, New York
2012 Hyperrealism Paintings: Unfamiliar Life / Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
MANIF Seoul International Art Fair / Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2011-2013 KIAF/ COEX, Seoul
2011 FINE ART ASIA 2011 / Hong Kong Convention Centre, Hong Kong
Collection & Collection 4 / Yeouido Shinhan PB, Seoul
2010-2012 Korea Conceptual Competition / Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2009 Korea Selected Artist Exhibition / Municipal Art Museum of Seoul, Seoul
2007 Rest : Take Exhibition / Gallery Royal Opening Exhibition, Seoul
2002-2004 Donga Art Festival Invitational Exhibition / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
1996 Korean Contemporary Art Wave / Central Artist House, Moscow, etc over 200 times.
Awards
1997 MBC Art Competition – Encouragement Prize
New-Frontier Competition – Outstanding Prize
Contemporary Sculpture Competition – Special Selection
1996 Korea Youth Biennale – Young Artist Awards of Korea
Donga Art Competition – Special selections in Painting and Sculpture Divisions
Jungang Biennale – Selection in 2D Division
MBC Korea Conceptual Sculpture Competition – Selection, etc over 30 times.
Collections
- Seoul Museum of Art, Long Museum, Art Retreat Museum, OCI Museum, etc.
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