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1. Head Series-Award 2. Head Series-Book 3. Head Series-Fingers 4. Head Series-Pocket 5. Head Series-The zodiac 6. Head Series-Architectu
The lives and desires of us are paradoxically revealed by his witty twists of the histories of world art and human civilization. His ways of revealing them are hinted with Pop Art‐like and humorous hues and imbued with a conceptualist attitude and yet do not neglect to find fitting methods to construct forms in his approach to formal ingredients. Having coherently attached emphasis to the objecthood of material and manual work, Kim shows at this biennale the ‘Head’ Series, a groups of bronze sculptures produced through several years long art‐making process. In these works of his in the form of human head are conveyed as follows: architectures of wonder made by human hands; animal instincts and the pleasure of sex; awards and books reflective of intellectuality and social desires; tables of constellations and the twelve horary signs controlling the world and human fate; religion; pockets and fingers as the arenas for thinking that are filled up and emptied out; trashes as the products of desires and surpluses. The installations of these works on the Gwangalli Beach make one to be reminded of such ruins as the Moai statues on Easter Island or Stonehenge, and they are clearly among his major works in terms both of scale and content. Despite the heaviness generated by his use of bronze and their monumental scale, his distinctive wits and daily objects are hidden here and there. The viewers can have pleasant experiences by moving towards the works as closely as possible so as to find what are hidden.
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