Tears in the Sunset

A pioneering artist in South Korea’s emerging glass scene, Kim is mesmerised by the colour palette
of the natural world. Winning silver in the 2013 edition of Kanazawa’s International Exhibition of Glass, his vibrant work is exhibited in Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Laced with the artist’s endless fascination with the malleability of glass, polychromatic colour, and the juxtaposition between opacity and translucency, this ethereal bowl is a portrait of time and place. A series of wing-like spines imbue the traditional form with more modern flourishes. Using the gradation method to effect a dusk-like colour that emanates from deep within the glass, Kim captures the celestial tones of twilight. The fragility of this gleaming, hollow bowl reveals Kim’s skeletal imaginings about excavation and exposure.