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Wansoo Kim: Table Monsters
The New Gallery, Sept. - Oct. 22, 2021 |
exhibition catalogue
exhibition essay by: Veronica Kavass |
“It is always exciting to be able to exhibit one of our own,” states Michael Dickins, director of The New Gallery. “I offer a solo exhibition to our new Art + Design faculty during the third year of their professorship. This gives the students, colleagues and community a chance to see the faculty member’s newest creative research. Kim’s work also brings The New Gallery its first exhibition that has focused solely on ceramic works, and all of these works were produced on campus in the ceramics studio.” According to arts writer, Veronica Kavass, “In Kim’s practice, there is an active shifting around of how the past correlates to the present. Perhaps when he started his development as an artist in Seoul, he felt boxed into a tradition which had been revived due to being estranged during Japanese colonial rule (several decades before his time). In his initial training in ceramics, he felt restricted by historical convention, but eventually found a way to simultaneously celebrate and question his cultural past. Because sometimes (often) there is a gulf between honoring tradition and giving an object meaning. Some artists straddle this gulf but when it becomes too wide, invention and imagination have to come into play. And in Kim’s case: monsters have to come into play. Even if they don’t know what exactly they are going to do with the tables at the end of the day.” Gallery Guide
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