Sungkok Art Museum invites KIM Kang Yong as the seventh artist for our ‘Invitational Exhibition with Korean Veteran Artists.’ Titled KIM Kang Yong: Hyper Realistic Bricks, this exhibition overviews 50-year-long career retrospective of the artist. KIM, who was born in 1950, conveyed the realities of life in Korea on canvas in a hyperrealist manner in the 1970s. His long-time subject matter, bricks, has now become the artist’s trademark. KIM’s bricks, presented in a neutral and mechanical representation of real bricks, can be considered as Korean reinterpretation of Hyperrealism. KIM’s paintings are so distinctive that they paintings are clearly distinguished from traditional figurative art as well as American Hyperrealism, which the artist was influenced by. Thus, what characterizes his work is not hyperrealist technique – it is simulacre, whereby an image becomes independent from the original, turns far more real than the original itself and functions as its own reality eventually.

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