Peace 165cm High
Kim, Seung Young and 김승영2005
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
Artist's NoteAround the time that World War Two was about to come to an end, Japanese soldiers built up 15 cave fortresses on a Jeju beach, near the Songhak mountain to prevent the US Army from landing on mainland Japan. They waited for the allied forces, armed with small suicide boats. After 60 years, I looked over horizon, from the cave where pain, and gloom at that time was sensed. What did the Japanese soldiers, who were ready to die, think, at the time, whilst looking over the horizon? What do we view this place that has been turned into a sightseeing attraction? The letters of ‘peace’ are set to be seen, as if they were floating on the water and to be on the same level as the horizon, when viewed from the eye level of 165 cm.
- Title: Peace 165cm High
- Creator: Kim, Seung Young, 김승영
- Creator Lifespan: 1963
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
- Date Created: 2005
- Type: Media, Installation
- Medium: Stainless stee
- Size: Variable size
- Korean Artist Project: Kim, Seung Young is one of 21 outstanding artists selected by the Korean Artist Project. The Korean Artist Project is a global online website which aims to promote Korean contemporary artists hosted by the Ministy of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea and organized by the Korean Art Museum Association. KAP has launched with a three-year plan spanning from 2011 to 2013. At the first step in 2011, art professionals and critics selected 21 artists, and curators from 13 private art museums organized their virtual solo exhibitions. KAP would love to introduce a diverse spectrum of Korean contemporary art to the global audience. Through these efforts, KAP will play a significant role in the promotion and development of Korean contemporary art. Also, the KAP will become a useful platform, which will serve as a stepping-stone to create cultural exchange and global networks with diverse art people. Please visit www.koreanartistproject.com
- Critic's Note: Fragmentary Memories Dreaming of Communication beyond Space and Time In Kim's work the wisdom and reason of fundamental being and a metaphor for this appear brilliant, beyond any distinction between nature and civilization, reason and sensibility, intellectual and perceptual worlds. Kim's intentions to provoke and share the world with metamorphoses and new effects are intentional and work multi-dimensionally. Kim's work appropriates the products of capitalistic industrial society, though not its superficiality or banal representations of society. Kim borrows some urban daily aspects in his work. He invites an abstruse meaning of life, tracing cultures he had met by chance at a serene Buddhist temple. Kim's work reminds us of the dignity and mysticism of fresh life forms discovered in unknown plants and insects. Like relics, his work recalls traces of human life and the weight and meaning of cultural memories. It also shows lucid dewdrops formed on the leaves of grass, and let us hear the wind sound from a wind chime hanging under the eaves. These elements have magical power to revive our senses of sight, hearing, touch, and smell. His work does not ride on modern artistic discourse highlighting visual truth or physical elucidation of art, or Marshal McLuhan's concept of the age of electronic technology. In Kim's work the wisdom and reason of fundamental being and a metaphor for this appear brilliant, beyond any distinction between nature and civilization, reason and sensibility, intellectual and perceptual worlds. (This is an excerpt from an original text.)
- Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. B.F.A., M.F.A. Sculpture
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