Sangbin Im Exhibition
Walter Randel Gallery
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Walter Randel Gallery announces an exhibition of recent photographs, paintings, drawings and video works by Sangbin IM. For the first time the public will have the opportunity to view two large-scale works, Mr. IM's important pictorial homages to MoMA and the Yale Center for British Art.
Exceptionally, his technique combining elements of photography, painting, and print-making is suffused with a passion for detail. His dreamlike imagery allows him to syncretise the real and unreal, the actual and the imagined. His boldly innovative approaches to verisimilitude and perspective create a seamlessly integrated world of fact and illusion. The imagined can be immediately visualized and understood both literally and in the realm of fantasy.
IM's works address the cerebral boundaries of what it is to look at art. He is an artist for whom the world is always in flux, an ever-changing place from moment to moment and place to place. His eyes ceaselessly capture the cosmopolitan delirium of time and space, movement, people, and places. He treats images he has captured as data footage to remix and generate a meaningful visual journey that is not only photographic but also painterly.
"The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe." Augmenting this notion of Walter Benjamin, IM is actively engaged by what he sees, which includes not only his knowledge and beliefs but also his desires. Essentially, truth can be broadened. The recondite harmonies and discords of the physical world merge to create a special landscape of the mind. As a world traveler with firm Asian roots but a sensibility tempered by his European and American experiences, the artist's history permits him to recapture the hopefulness and zeal of early photography and film.
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Schedule
from June 21, 2008 to August 14, 2008