From May 15, 2010 to August 1, 2010, Kim Beom presents his 15 new productions and un-exhibited works of paintings, drawings, video and installation at the Artsonje Center.

Kim Beom was awarded the Suk Nam Arts and Cultural Foundation Award in 1995 and the Hermès Art Award in 2001 among many other prizes. He questions visual perception, the fundamental key within visual art. He suggests that ‘what you see’ may ‘not’ be ‘what you see’, converting the educational aspect of the visual fact within an image.

The exhibition “Kim Beom” aims to present an opportunity for people to observe daily objects in a new dimension, escaping from fixed conceptions. Kim carefully transforms the image and its meaning through unique ways of thinking and observation. Objects suddenly look fresh and unfamiliar, leading people to a unique world of contemplation.

Works to be exhibited through the 2nd and 3rd floor of Artsonje Center are new productions and un-exhibited works by Kim, which offers an opportunity to experience Kim’s conceptual works that take diverse forms and methods. His new production Educated Objects (2010) series personifies the intellectual, emotional and political changes within an individual through education. As implied in the titles, A Rock that Learned Poetry of JUNG Jiyong, A Rock that was Taught it was a Bird and Objects Being Taught They are Nothing But Tools, education is practiced toward inanimate objects.

A Draft of a Safe House for a Tyrant (2009) is Kim’s recent production following his previous work such as An Unmanned Probing Ship for the Planet Jupiter (2002), A Design of an Immigration Bureau Complex on a Borderline (2005) that extends his Blueprint and Perspectives series. By using a blueprint, Kim shows an imaginary place that pulls down people’s unconditional beliefs upon reality. Kim creates a place that is ironical in terms of the appearance and its actual interior or use, and presents stories and events that happen in those places, referring to the violence and irrationality within a society.

At the 1st floor lounge of Artsonje Center, Flower (1999) which consists of 9 TV monitors installed in the form of a flower will be exhibited. Also, Kim’s third artist book, following “The Art of Transforming” and “Hometown”, “Noonchi” will be on sale at the arts book store, “The Books”. A comprehensive monograph of Kim Beom’s work will also be available for sale along with the exhibition. The exhibition will provide a chance for people to think about the fictional and the real in an everyday image.