Chinwook Kim was born in 1972, Eumsung, Korea. He is currently doing a M.F.A. in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London UK and he got his anothe M.F.A and a B.F.A from Stuttgart National Art School, Germany 2003 – 2006.
He inserts an image which he discovered in a familiar place in another space, randomly, and endeavor an attempt to excavate another aspect buried between image and image, space and space, through new assumptions and suppositions. This is much like an attempt to create another world by drawing out another reality under the surface of reality, and by presenting another passageway in reality made up of similar landscapes. This awkward scene seems like an unfamiliar bridge linking reality and unreality, but alters to a familiar appearance through a repetition of discovery and excavation. He says,
“The images, made through direct or indirect experience, appear through a process of deformation, repetition, combination, and abbreviation. These images return to their original appearance in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space, or are modified into degraded unfamiliar appearances. The expansion and distortion of artificial thinking spreads to an unpredictable sphere, disregarding the distinction of space and things. The objects associated with one another, through unconscious assumptions and suppositions, represent an innerscape, through coarse, simplified hieroglyphs, as clues to another world, likely to be somewhere between the conscious and unconscious”.
Enjoy his work images!
‘The surface’, charcoal, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 200cm, 2009
‘Inside and outside of landscape-3′, Chinese ink on paper, 195 x 122cm, 2009
‘A man on the scales’- front, mixed media, 95 x 32 x 30cm, 2009
‘A man on the scales’- side, mixed media, 95 x 32 x 30cm, 2009
‘The value of isolated island’, mixed media, 130 x 60 x 50cm, 2010
