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Sculptor Kim Young Won
조각가 김영원
Sculptor Kim's 40-year mark, maintaining a consistent orientation of realistic concrete sculpture, has been the traces of his efforts to find the human inner changes and fundamental principles by the endless encounters with the changing times.
Kim retired as professor and dean of fine arts at Hongik University 2012. He has been working as chairman of the board of the Korean Sculptors’ Association since 2008.
Kim is also known to the Korean public for the huge statue of King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) that sits in Gwanghwamun Plaza, central Seoul.
Kim Young Won who has been working on the realism with the consistent material of the human body, was evaluated as a sculptor who led to re-evaluation of the essence and value of the Korean sculpture. His works world has been changed slightly depending on the age, in the 70-80s which was passed from an agricultural society to industrial society in the transitional period his works were made in order to protest contemporary situation terribly depressed with the critical point of view and works were made on the subject of the human body of gravity and zero gravity. In the 1990's, suffering fragmentation process caused by bisection of the society, through the process of dismantling he spread out the new work world. In dismantling operations professor Kim whose body and mind are tired
after that meeting with energy, achievement, and line, through a direct manifestation of consciousness, check the inside of my own, wanted sympathetic to the outside world he created a kind of performance art, sculpture line, drawing line. Including the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1994, in a number of performance Arts Festival demonstrated the type of performance he left the result left as the sculpture and drawing. Entering the 2000s, our society as IT society had been made for the transition, throughout the art we were facing upheaval. Watching these turbulent flows, he was trying to find sculpture language worthy of the 2000s in the point of view through the line experience and in the reality western civilization has brought.
For the opposite World of experience and ideas, the development of the body, he made an effort to contain the integrated alternative, interpreting it narratively on his works.
