DOOSAN Gallery is pleased to present Common Good_Climb Every Mountain!, a solo exhibition by Kira Kim, from March 1st to 29th, 2012. Kim’s works reflect the society and individual through diverse mediums including photography, painting, video and installation. The exhibition features Kim’s Specter series, an intensive body of work which integrates the comic elements and narrative structure found in general throughout Kim’s oeuvre.
Specter series is inspired by the artist’s idea that sacred images or images deriving from mythology, religion, society and economic structure become a specter that constraints and controls man and incites desire in people, rather than aiming for the ‘common good’ and expanding human existence and life. Kim deconstructs, transforms and reconstructs the sacred and mythological images through which historical and social meanings have accumulated. The images are a specter that reflects the human consciousness, and metaphorically illustrate the human fate that can never be free from desire. Common Good_Climb Every Mountain! presents photo collages, drawings and installation works combining sacred and mythological images the artist has extracted from over 500 books about civilization, history and history of man that he has collected in the last 8 years, from a dozen or so countries he has sojourned.
About the Artist
Kira Kim (b.1974, Daechon, Korea) received a B.F.A and an M.F.A. from Kyungwon University in Sungnam, Korea, M.F.A. from Goldsmiths College in London, UK. He has held solo exhibitions in BOONTHESHOP (2010, Seoul, Korea), Kukje Gallery (2009, Seoul, Korea), Figge von Rosen Galerie (2009, Koln, Germany) and Alternative Space Loop (2008, Seoul, Korea). He has also participated in many group exhibitions including shows at Kaohsiung Art Museum (2011, Taiwan), Plateau (2011, Seoul, Korea), Samsung Museum of Art Leeum (2011, Seoul, Korea), Minsheng Art Museum (2010, Shanghai, China), Bochum Art Museum (2010, Bochum, Germany), The National Museum of Contemporary Art, (2008, Gwacheon, Korea), Santral Istanbul Museum (2009, Istanbul, Turkey) Artsonje Center (2008, Seoul), Nanjing Museum of Art (2008, Nanjing, China) and LSO Space (2008, London, UK).
