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Wandering Thing

Bae, Hyung Kyung2010

Korean Art Museum Association

Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea

Through the relationship between the human figures and the steel objects the work draws attention to a critical situation in people’s life.

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  • Title: Wandering Thing
  • Creator: Bae, Hyung Kyung
  • Creator Lifespan: 1955
  • Creator Nationality: Korean
  • Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
  • Date Created: 2010
  • Physical Dimensions: w1000 x h600 x d2400 cm
  • Type: Sculpture
  • Medium: Steel
  • Critic's Note: Human dignity Bae hyung kyung's sculptural work is dark and depressing. However, it is wrong to say that her works express nihilism through formative factors. Bae hyung kyung's sculptures are the stacks of thoughts and ideas that came from the question of formative arts in humanity. Bae’s work is one large mass. Can perfectly manicured shapes and forms handle the weight of human beings? A statue must represent a mass of numerous traces of life and stacks of thoughts. Bae hyung kyung is an artist who thinks about human beings and their dignity at all times. It would not be too difficult to read into the artist's reverent intentions. She depicts humans in her sculptures by not covering them up with habitual plasticity. They are shabby but dignified beings. Bae hyung kyung's sculptures show the paradox between how a human’s shabby and poor circumstances can make them dignified.
  • Artist's Education: Seoul National University. M.F.A., Sculpture.
Korean Art Museum Association

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