CI KIM: To Make a Rainbow

Period | 12 February – 29 March, 2009
Venue | Arario Gallery Cheonan
Works | paintings, installations and photographs
Opening Reception | 6 pm, Feburary, 2012

The art of Ci Kim manifests itself, in broad terms, as a deeply personal exploration into the matrices of meaning that emerge through the juxtaposition of various dichotomies. In effect, the new paintings by Ci Kim bring to mind several issues centred on the Gaze. Through the act of throwing tomatoes on to previously executed canvases, Kim asks his viewer to look a little more closely. Like Kim’s art, memories are layered; morph in and out of recognition, fragmented but always leave us with real, true emotion. It is that emotional, human response to the memory of the Image and its Index which interests Kim. These paintings reflect on the subjective construction of History; Kim’s own interpretation of that in relation to himself and, ultimately, how Images ebb and flow on the tides of Signification.