Exhibition : September 17 (Sat) - October 16 (Sun), 2011
Opening : October 1 (Sat) 3:00 PM, 2011
Place : DR.PARK GALLERY, Yangpyeong
Monologue
The stratum of monologue : The Artist, Kim Kun Ju, monologizes various variations of languages embracing the possibilities of sculptural reproduction. The monologue is similar to letters and becomes various images of echoing with language and sound to create several layers of landscape. And as the broken pieces of the impact having friction with the outer world are accumulated one after one to form layers, a figure in which the curve with varied depth and melody with different tempo are condensed is created. On the surface of the figure, as each of the letters gets harmonized and overlapped, various sections with different compositions are found as varied colors having their own unique area. It is that the several layers of the meanings and shapes of the letters and the forms of delivery generate various spaces naturally. Also, the color that each area of the space exhibits implies whether it becomes the changes of meaning, space, or the blank according to which opponent the language of various monologues encounters.
The form that the artist takes is like monologue, and her attitude is close to the way to collect the beauty of various compositions associated with diverse objects that are parasitic on life. In the artist's monologue covering it further with a method rather than a form, the poetic element – the feast of implicative metaphor – takes the initiative. And the poetic languages are absorbed to Kim Kun Ju's art and appear as the sculptor's formative language. Though her recent works reproduce the flexible status of the letters formatively, these works of hers start from the direct exposure of language and appear as the new formative aesthetics of showing and hiding that is accumulated as the stratum of monological language.
How can the impact of the work provided by the artist's monologue enjoy the color of the surface, space, and impression? We cannot help thinking how much of the power of the monologue that the artist throws is delivered to us. In the relative structure of the artist, her work, and the viewers, her monologue can be said to be another point for us. In the artist's showing of her creation, ironically, she users monologue, the structure of murmuring with no one to talk to, until her emotion and sensual languages are manifested in reality. However, according to the features of monologue, in monologue, there are already many people who are about to accept the artist's story all at once from the criteria of the artist. If so, the artist's monologue not just has the significance of delivery but also transmits what is feasible with various languages in the state of consciousness. As the artist talks about her story, she names it as her own murmuring or talking to herself, or monologue and the viewers recognize the artist's murmuring as monologue and accept the artist's position. This is the part where the attitudes of the artist and the viewers are the most crucial point. It is not the relationship that one understands and is understood forcibly, but it is the story of various understandings and methods, the monologue, about each one's position and attitude and what is exhibited and recognized in life and environment.
In this exhibition, the artist tried to embody the language of monologue that she recites with her mental state, mind, and spirit. The language of the monologue includes 'ART', 'if I make it or it makes me', 'That art is unseen means that it exists right before us.', 'it imitates me.', 'SLOW', 'how to contain time', 'LOVE', or 'MY WAY'. As she gives a psychological prescription taking herself forward with words or short monological sentences, she completes the pieces of monologue with various figures. In Kim Kun Ju's monologue, it is delivered as a story of all... The personal monologue murmurs as if it were all's understanding or monologue... it is delivered from monologue to monologue... The scenery created by the stratum of monologue... Here, we can see that Kim Kun Ju does not simply use the form of severely private monologue but it is the moment when it becomes natural from trust to trust among all relations via figures. It is also the answer for 'if I make it or it makes me' which is the monologue mentioned by her in her work. ■ KIM JAEWON ( Curator of Dr. Park Gallery)
