Art Seasons Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Erehwon: New Paintings and Sculptures by Yim Tae Kyu’. Yim’s works are recognized for their playful reinterpretation of traditional ink painting and for the bitterly amusing scenes of metropolitan banality.

The unusual title, ‘Erehwon’, resonates with the name of satirical utopia in Samuel Butler’s novel, Erewhon (1872), and is an anagram of the word “nowhere”. Butler uses his utopia as a device to question the Victorian virtues and its religious hypocrisies. Yim’s imagined world extends that view to our times, and focuses his commentary on the marginal beings of our society. However, as much as Butler’s utopia was not a complete dystopia, Yim’s ‘Erehwon’ also harbors unrestricted curiosity and imagination.

About the Artist

Yim Tae Kyu (b. 1976) was born in Seoul, Korea and obtained his M.F.A. in Chung Ang University Department of Painting after finishing his B.F.A at Seoul National University. He was awarded prestigious art prizes including the Song Eun Art Award (2005), Young Artist of KUMHO museum (2006) and the Seok Nam Arts Award (2007). He currently lives and works in Seoul and Beijing.