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Artist(s): Taewhan Kim
Location: Chelsea Gallery, Chelsea Old Town Hall, King's Road, SW3.
Cost: Free to enter.
Time: The gallery is part of the Chelsea Library. Please see Library opening hours.
My objects celebrate connections in architectural structures. Sometimes I combine surface and line to form transparent structures which are seen as objects such as a building, a hotel, a school, a stadium, or a pyramid, in order to intrigue the viewer. These structures do not exist in reality - they are the product of my imagination.
Inside and outside merge together through the transparency of the structure, and unlike architecture, my work is an open space; unfinished and allowing the possibility of transformation. This offers the viewer the aesthetic beauty of an imagined landscape.
Space in the work is empty and occupied at the same time. Therefore space is not empty or occupied but both, like the face of JANUS; abstract; ambiguous; void. The practical meaning of space no longer applies. In my work, space exists in between the lines of the structure. In the end these structures made with lines are like open windows.
We cannot say that a building is not finished when the window has no glass. The open space in my work sustains the whole piece of work. The components of these are open and transparent - spaces are rhythmic and play like an orchestra.
Therefore, my architectural structures which are pre-occupied with virtual emptiness are beyond ornament, they are an artistic event created with 3D computer based technology.
ee also Chelsea Library.
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