BYUNGJOO KIM | 김병주
Byung Joo Kim’s works started from his visual curiosity about the boundaries of space. “I want people to look at the familiar scene in daily life from a different point of view through my work.” He collects variety scenes of modern city with his camera. Kim builds a new building each time he creates an artwork. In his work, an overlap of sculpture and architecture exists.
There was an inspiration when he prepared his graduation exhibition back in college. His famous relief works, Ambiguous Wall, breaks down buildings by eliminating ‘surfaces’ and leaving only lines and dots. Resulting spaces, which has been made unclear of what’s ‘inside’ and what’s ‘outside’ by these ‘ambiguous walls’, now clash and overlap each other opening up a new space more subjective to new interpretations and possibilities. Ambiguous Wall induces the audiences to activate a high level of spatial perception awareness. It is a visualization of invisible space, a multilayered and multidimensional structure of endless intersections of horizontal and vertical lines which gradually come closer and eventually overlap each other by perspective system.
The work is created of delicate steel, with finely carved exterior catching the eye first, while giving way to the complicated interior such as staircases that connects each floor inside the building. When light reaches to the work, shadows from different parts of the building gets all tangled up, again creating a whole new space behind it. “I have used stones and wood but steel worked the best for me. Unlike those other materials that require to be trimmed for multiple times, steel shows the final result right away. Steel as a material is very intuitive and simple. Steel looks strong, however, it gets very tender with heat.” Sometimes Kim would like to leave some space for the viewers to imagine, deliberately, by showing an edge or a part of the entire building structure.
Kim is one of the most remarkable and active young sculpture artists in Korea today. He studied sculpture at Hongik University in Seoul. He received MFA from UAL Chelsea college of Arts, London, and Ph.D. from Department of sculpture, Hongik University.
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EDUCATION
B.F.A. Department of sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
M.F.A. Department of sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
M.F.A. UAL Chelsea college of Arts, London, UK
Ph.D. Department of sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Ambiguous wall–Eidos, Gana Art Sounds, Seoul, Korea
2019 Ambiguous wall, Print Bakery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Ambiguous wall, 63SKY Museum, Seoul, Korea
2017 Ambiguous Wall, Choi Jung Ah gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 The Paradox of Space, Bundo gallery, Deagu, Korea
2015 Ambiguous Wall-The Marriage of In and Out, Gallery Huue, Singapore
2014 Familiar scene, PYO gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 BYUNGJOO KIM, Coohaus art, New York, USA
2013 From the spot, TV12 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Twofold Line, Salon de H, Seoul, Korea
2010 Enumerated Void, Noam gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Ambiguous wall, Kunstraum, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Cololurful Power, Cheongju Museum of Art, Korea
2021 The Gaze of Contemporary Art, Yangpyeong Art Museum, Korea
2019 Encounter, PYO gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 HONGKONG ART Central, Hong Kong
2018 Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2017 Anti-Art Museum Show, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Rip Tide, N gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 L.A. ART SHOW, Los Angeles Convention Center, LA, USA
2016 Harmony of Materials, Sophis Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Contemporary Art in Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
2016 Arithmetic, SEUM art space, Seoul, Korea
2015 2GIL, 2-gil 29 gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 The trace of line, Choi Jung Ah gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 TOUCHING MOMENTS IN MACAU THROUGH ARTISTS' PERSPECTIVE, Ganainsa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2015 Home Scape, LOTTE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 The good life, Seum Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2014 ART MIAMI contaxt , Miami, USA
2014 Affordable art fair Singapore, Singapore
2014 SOLIPSISMOS, ETHRA Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 ARTNOVA 100, SZ ART Center, Beijing, China
2014 Occpy Jungmiso, Art space JUNGMISO, Seoul, Korea
2014 Draw a space, S+ gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 2014 INTRO, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Unexpected moment, Vogoze Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Space: Life&Routine, Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 LINE-drawing, Wumin Art center, Seoul, Korea
2014 2014 Young Revolution, Ion Art gallery, Singapore
2014 Double Logic, Space K, Gwangju, Korea
2013 Near and Dear objects, Art On, Singapore
2013 KOREAN ART SHOW 2013, Houston art fair, Houston, USA
2013 Variations on Canon, Coohaus art, New York, USA
2013 Four Multiplicities, Emoa space, New York, USA
2013 BIRTH, Yangpyeong art museum, Korea
2013 2013 Pyo project, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Artistic Period, Gallery Iteralia, Seoul, Korea
2012 The art of display, Eugean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 ART EDITION, SETEC, Korea
2011 Become we, Next door Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 On, Plan, Make, TV12 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 多重感覺, SAVINA museum of contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
2011 Charade, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Meditation of Technology-Alchemy of steel, Pohang Museum of steel Art, Korea
2010 DOORS ART FAIR 2010, Imperial palace Hotel, Seoul, Korea
2010 Off the map, Gallery 4walls, Seoul, Korea
2010 Free Style : A Dialogue Between Art and Design, Hongik museum of art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Nanji Relay Exhibition, Seoul national museum Nanji Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Taehwa River Public Art Festival 2009-Breathing out, Korea
2008 Wise Answer about foolish Question, Kunst Doc Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Hongje stream project, Seoul, Korea
2007 POSCO Steel Art Award, Posco Gallery, Korea
2007 10piston caliper, Soop Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Bohemian space Ⅱ, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2005 Artist network program, Team Preview, Seoul, Korea
AWARDS
2008 Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2007 POSCO Steel Art Award, Korea
COLLECTIONS
Incheon International Airport Terminal 2, Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Pohang Museum of steel Art, Korea
The Federation of Korean Industries, Korea
Imperial palace Hotel, Korea
Lotte Hotel, Korea
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