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DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards

ProgramsDOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards
Heecheon Kim
DAC Artists Info

2015 B.F.A. in Architecture, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

2015 Wall Rally Drill, COMMON CENTER, Seoul, Korea

 

Heecheon Kim focuses on the life of people living in this day and age.

His video works extend his real world to the virtual screen through the use of 3-D mapping and modelling programs.

Based on his own personal experiences, Kim throws critical questions on reality

through his works that are infinitely disassembled and assembled in the boundaries of real and imaginary.

 

Jury’s Statement

Doosan Artist Award has established itself as a competitive sponsor of the next generation of artists and their creative leaps. The award system focuses on the art practices and annual exhibitions of artists in their thirties who have active careers in both Korea and abroad, and strives to explore innovative and experimental approaches in discovering up-and-coming artists. In keeping up with such commitments, the jury of the 2016 Doosan Artist Award Fine Arts Category (Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Sun-ryung Cho) went through a thorough and in-depth discussion and has selected Heecheon Kim(1989), Gwangsoo Park(1984) and Hoin Lee (1980) as the finalists of the 7th Doosan Artist Award this year out of the 9 candidates. There were difficulties in selecting the finalists due to the high level of competency and expectations for the 9 artists recommended by the jury. At last, the jury chose the three artists based on their potential for growth, current art practice, and capability to construct a concrete body of oeuvre.

The penetrative video trilogy presented by Heecheon Kim, only in his late 20s, in the last year successfully won over the jury despite his short exhibition experience compared to other candidates. Drawing analogy between life in his generation to segmented life like an mp3 file, Kim says that when he wants to escape from such life, he backs up the real world in the screen in order to disappear. An Architecture-major, Kim proposes a ‘parallel reality’ by constructing the life of Seoulites, including himself, backed up in the screen, and by building up another city for them.

Known for black marker drawings and animation, the unique traits of Gwangsoo Park(1984)’s work lies in the “originality of expression and the diversity of its variations”. Making animations, murals and objects based on drawing, Park is praised for constructing a “style emancipated from rules, which is not constricted to geometric frames worn out from excessive consumption, and also free from particular trends or tendencies”.

Having emerged in the art world in spotlight in 2006, Hoin Lee’s solo exhibition at Cake Gallery in 2015 was raved for “promising certain changes, and well calculated brushstrokes of matte paint layers which invite the anticipations of a new world.” Also, Lee’s exhibition at Art Spectrum in 2016 won praises for “successfully portraying constructive artifacts in a convincing matter, despite the fact that ? given the characteristics of his work which thinly piles up layers of dry and matte paint ? it’s very difficult to portray something beyond the human figure and natural landscape.”

The jury of Doosan Artist Award sends applause to the recent remarkable activities and accomplishments of Heecheon Kim, Gwangsoo Parkand Hoin Lee, and looks forward to even bigger growth and leaps.

 

_Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Sun-ryung Cho

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