Songsik Min "Two Faces"
Doosan Gallery
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Min sees the world as a simple color palette and arrangement. He is known for creating paintings of surreal spaces using vivid colors and bold divisions of familiar scenes or objects. In this exhibition, he maintains the sense of isolation while his heavy and difficult subjects are touched upon in a playful manner. The motif, toy guns, starts with his nostalgic recollection of childhood, during which he used to make and play with wooden toy guns. He deals with various aspects of life using a metaphor that involves the collision of two polar opposites: violence and protection. As the title suggests, Min captures the duplicity of violence using simplified toy gun imagery and allows viewers to observe the symbolic connotation behind toy guns. Although it is daunting to think that such benign objects trained us to exhibit human cruelty from the early stages of our lives, Min has discreetly taken these toy guns out from the social context and has placed them in the seemingly innocent world of childhood.
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from May 05, 2011 to June 04, 2011