๊น๋ฒ Kim Beom, ์์์ฃผ Im Youngzoo ,์กฐํํ Cho Hyun Taek, ์ต์๋ จ Choe Sooryeon, ์ต์ค Choi Yun Curated by ๋ฐ์ฐฌ๊ฒฝ Park Chan-kyong
A Faraway Today
June 4 – July 20, 2025
Kukje Gallery Seoul ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฌ
https://www.kukjegallery.com/exhibitions/view?seq=281
“์๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฏผํ๋ ๊ดด์๋์์๋ ์ฐพ์๋ด๋๋ฐ, ๊ทผ๋ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณ์์ ์ ํํ๋ ๋ฌผํ๋ก ์ด๋ ์ ๋๋ฏธ์ฆ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ๊น๋ฒ์ด ์ฐ์ถํ๋ ๋ธ๋์ฝ๋ฏธ๋๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ‘ํดํ’์ด๋ผ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ฏผ์ค์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ง์ ํดํ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก์ง๋ง, ๊น๋ฒ์ ์ค์ผ์น๋ก ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๋์์จ๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ด์๋์ ๋ฌผํ๋ก ์ ์ธ๊ณ๊ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํดํ๋ ๊ณ ๋ ค์ฒญ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ ๋๋ก์์ ์ ํต์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๊ฒ์ ์๋์๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ฌ์ผ์ ๋ฏผ์ํ์๋ค์ด ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.” – ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ฐ์ฐฌ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ธ ์ค ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฐ์ท
In the curated group exhibition ๐ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ currently on view at the ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฌ space of Kukje Gallery, artist Kim Beom subverts conventions and absurdities embedded in objects, language, and systems through humor and irony. His wide-ranging practice spans from painting, drawing, sculpture, video to artist’s books, and questions the fundamental conditions of perception and knowledge.
“Kim Beom explores the vitality of objects inherent in ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฉ๐ธ๐ข (Korean folk paintings) and ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฐ (paintings of oddly-shaped rocks), which have exhibited hylozoism and animism much before these concepts have gained recent popularity in the art scene. Kim’s black comedy presentation is reminiscent of ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ (satirical humor characteristic of Korean folk culture). The style of humor seemed to have vanished alongside the ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ (“the people” who are socially and politically oppressed, exploited, and marginalized), but it re-emerges through his drawings. Neither the animist worldview of ๐จ๐ช๐ถ๐ฏ-๐ด๐ข๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ (spirit resonance and vitality) nor ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ were given much attention from institutionalized tradition—unlike Goryeo ware porcelain, for instance—as they were instead explored by independent folklorists operating outside the mainstream.”– Excerpt from a text by curator Park Chan-kyong





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