Gimhongsok biography of alberta
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Gimhongsok
“We are governed by size, material, color, and form when we analyze objects... What’s more, these factors are themselves invested with their own implicit political innuendo.”
Gimhongsok’s (b.
Gimhongsok biography of alberta
1964) work is devoted to exploring the arbitrary nature in the way humans assign value to an object. What determines implicit value? Who is drawing the lines, and how is the scale weighed? These are all questions raised by Gimhongsok’s work.
He attempts to humanize artificial conceptions while highlighting the inequities, politically-driven, and superficial opinions that hold dominion over the public sphere.
Born in Seoul in 1964, Gimhongsok graduated from Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie in Germany after obtaining his BA in Fine Arts at Seoul National University.
His recent solo exhibitions include Xijing Is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing Is Xijing at 21st Century Museum of C