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Research Program on Local Artist 「Artist Studio Visit」 : Gwangcheol Gim
Gwangcheol Gim
Panelist : Byunghun Kim
Date & Time : 2021. 12. 10. FRI 16:00(UTC+09:00)
Online link : YouTube Live Stream (Korean)
The Gwangju Biennale Artist Studio Visit, which introduces local contemporary artists, will take place at 4 p.m. on December 10, 2021. Artist Gim Gwangcheol, who works primarily in the fields of performance art and painting, will be joining the Artist Studio Visit program this December. Held at Gim Gwangcheol’s studio, the program will be streamed live on the Gwangju Biennale YouTube channel.
Pioneering a genre called “multi-layer performance art,” Gim has performed in 29 countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Since 2009, he has been presenting conceptual solo performances that explore the role of art in society and the physical time that exists between life and death. As a painter, Gim combines the figurative and the abstract to formatively express human emotions.
Gim has held eight solo exhibitions of his flat-surface art in Korea and Italy, and is currently meeting audiences through the material art project Desire Boxes 1-9. He is also working on the third edition of the project, to be shown at the end of next year.
Although performance art and painting are seen as two different genres, Gim regards them both as technical tools that reveal the harmony or disparity between consciousness and unconsciousness, plans and responses, and thought and materials. For Gim, what cannot be easily explained by intuitive rules are forms of expression as well as art.
Gwangcheol Gim, <Desire Boxes. Edition 2 – 01>, Acrylic on Canvas, 130.3x97.0cm, 2021
Gwangcheol Gim, <Desire Boxes. Edition 2 – 07>, Acrylic on Canvas, 130.3x97.0cm, 2021
Gwangcheol Gim, <Desire Boxes. Edition 2 – 21>, Acrylic on Canvas, 130.3x97.0cm, 2021
Gwangcheol Gim, <Memory Loading>, Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA, 2011
Gwangcheol Gim, <Language Flower>, Interkacje 13, Piotrków Trybunalski, POLAND, 2011
Gwangcheol Gim, <Physical Power Plant : 20 Cigarettes>, Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice, ITALY, 2016