Korean Artist Kim Youn Ji

Kim Youn Ji is Oriental VisArt’s newest member. She was born in Pusan, Korea in 1978 and is currently living and working in Ibarakiken, Japan. In 2001 she earned a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hong-ik University in Seoul, Korea. She later earned an M.F.A. in Painting at the same university. Kim Youn Ji is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Inter Media Art at Tokyo University of Art in Tokyo, Japan. She specialises in Installation. Her exhibitions include:

Group Exhibitions
2000	‘Next Generation’	The Headquarter of labor party, Cheolwon, Korea
1999	The outside sculpfest	Hong-ik University, Korea

She says,

“Light’ evokes the first and last moment of life. It also serves as a crucial element for visualising realistic images, which are from subtle illusions from the internal parts of the human body.

In terms of composition, I like transforming clear and various shapes found in nature into unrealistic forms. It conveys sarcastic remarks of a fixed sense that admits only existence of a familiar and fixed form.

My views suggested in my work signify infinite attachment to original forms of nature. Mechanisms that are like a state of play will be created to tell hidden stories and secrets.

The theme of my work is to create interesting stories that can be visualised and understood by the audience through their own eyes and through that moment space-time goes crooked and illusion is made.”

Please enjoy her work images and video!

'Cross over'

'That of that' , cloth, cotton, thread, needle, 2000

'The Surface', wire, string, acrylic and sand on plywood, 120 x 50 x 170 cm, 1996

Korean Artist ‘Chinwook Kim’

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