untitled #003 Painting by Kim Byungkwan

Old and faded magazines remind me some nostalgia and buried memory. Drawing discolored magazines is like to bring ghost, so you can't bear to describe vividly the shapes.

Original Created: 2017

Subjects: Popular culture

Styles: Expressionism, Figurative, Fine Art, Portraiture

Mediums: Acrylic

Materials: Paper

Painting: Acrylic on Paper

Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size: 31 W x 42.9 H x 0 D in

Frame: Black

Packaging: Ships in a Box

How do you do, all? This is kim byungkwan from Seoul, Korea. What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity (visual habit). Everything there is out there in this world, more or less, provides familiar vision. This familiar vision can be replaced as habit. This habitual vision which every object gives us and creates comfort. However it shuts down all the other possibilities. The habitual vision or visual habit makes us go by the routine ways. It stops us from having adventure and checking out the wonders out there. My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expended to other images. I have strong faith in my work that my personal behaviour may lead us “strangeness within habitual vision off from the track."