Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies presents an art exhibition by Kim Beom, as part of its Contemporary Asian Art Festival, My Voice Would Reach You. Random Life will be on display April 14 - April 20, 2014 in the Chao Center's Threshold Gallery.
About the exhibit:
Random Life is a tile work consisting of ceramic tiles. The tiles can be on panels, or they can be permanently installed on walls. There are 4 kinds of tiles with different patterns, and the patterns are parts of bodies of 4 different animals; human, wolf, frog, and bird at 4 corners on each tile. As they are attached randomly, the patterns make images of creatures that have accidental figures.
Random Life is a tile work consisting of ceramic tiles. The tiles can be on panels, or they can be permanently installed on walls. There are 4 kinds of tiles with different patterns, and the patterns are parts of bodies of 4 different animals; human, wolf, frog, and bird at 4 corners on each tile. As they are attached randomly, the patterns make images of creatures that have accidental figures.
With an existential point of view, the artist intended to describe the uncertainty of life that is formed by chances and accidents. The artist was thinking that we basically don't know who we really are, we were not given what to pursue, and we never know what will happen tomorrow. And what happens to us changes 'who we are' in appearance or in the meaning of our lives.
This work also is related to a series of pattern works that the artist is working on, such as Blooming and fadingand EKG Mountains.
노란 비명, 김범 (2012)
About the artist:
Kim Beom (pictured) investigates our perception of the world by bringing reality and imagination closer together. By referencing animistic notions by which artists ascribe a spiritual core to individual works. In particular, Kim inspires the viewer to come closer and become actively engaged—or even entangled—in the projection of images and thought.
Kim Beom (pictured) investigates our perception of the world by bringing reality and imagination closer together. By referencing animistic notions by which artists ascribe a spiritual core to individual works. In particular, Kim inspires the viewer to come closer and become actively engaged—or even entangled—in the projection of images and thought.
Kim was born in 1963 in Seoul, where he currently lives and works. He obtained a BFA and an MFA from Seoul National University in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1991. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions internationally, as well as in the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and the 2005 Venice Biennale, and in recent surveys of contemporary art from Korea.
About the festival:
My Voice Would Reach You celebrates the breadth and vigor of contemporary art, performance, poetry, installation, critical theory, sculpture, video, multimedia, and works on paper. An offshoot of work that “Capital, Class and Culture in ‘Asia’: Histories and Futures of the Question of Political Subjectivity and Forms of Freedom” established, we focus on two themes: the question of freedom in the cultural, social and economic worlds of ‘Asia’ and the question of who creates avenues of freedom. We are undertaking this project in the belief that, whether by excavating past possibilities or producing alternative imaginations, we help shape futures in a way that is good for humanity.
http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/441825272
Kim Beom is a conceptual artist, like Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). He often works with inanimate objects or at the intersection of animate and inanimate objects, or demonstrates in his films, installations, drawings and poetry how language and systems of logic are deranged or odd and not logical. His work is often funny.
In this work, Kim demonstrates his versatility, brilliant insight, and precision in the use of language. He narrates the history of how objects came to exist, their value, and intrinsic meaning. The narrator’s face is not shown, and his voice has been purposely modified forcing the viewer to listen intently. The English subtitle is exact in its projected meaning. The narrator speaks with great authority to the imagined objects.
Kim Beom was born in 1963 in Seoul, where he currently lives and works. He attended Seoul National University and the School of Visual Arts in New York where he lived and worked throughout the 1990’s. Recent solo exhibitions include Kim Beom’s Animalia at Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles (2011), Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2010-2011), and Kim Beom at the Artsonje Center, Seoul (2010). He has participated in many group shows including Media City Seoul (2010), Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California (2009), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), the 8th Istanbul Biennale (2003), and the Gwangju Biennale: Part 3 (2002).
http://www.mvwry.com/exhibitions/
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