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  Kim Sung-ho selected art books for his painting becomes clear by seeing the composition of the screen. The books in his work show their titles, not the contents. That may be why his work reminds the audience of a tower built on a kind of “paradox foundation”. Toe tower reminds the audience of Jenga in which the volume of a tower is enlarged so as to balance and not to collapse and the space for collapse is erased in the screen. Whether he intended it or not, the paradox he created has no choice but to rely on two social problems. The first problem is the contradiction between the art education and the reality and suppressing mechanism. The second one is the fact that we cannot predict to which direction the value system –which was created in the modern society that encourages the exaggeration of image-of visual art are headed. The obsessive-compulsive syndrome for exaggeration of modern society can be a key-word for finding out the hidden intention and meaning in his painting. The instability and uncomfortable nature become even more severe as the size of books gets bigger and the height of the tower gets longer.

<Kim Sung-ho’s Volume Tower – What attitude does his “realism” requires?>_Art Critic

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