Dong Jin Kim

Ghosting"”What Lies Hidden Under the After-image

Diogenes"”still remembered as the man who said to Alexander the Great, "I would like you not to block the sun""”has taught us to defy all convention; to not lose our self dignity; and to find our happiness in our inner, not outer, world. He yearned for a pure, anarchist state of being and tried to make people realize that conventions and traditions, such as laws and systems, are mere bubbles. His world view can be defined, in a nutshell, by the Greek word "kynic." The term refers to a "pleasure-seeking anarchist skeptic," but one who should not be a cynic. Such attitude, surprisingly, overlaps with the artistic phenomena taking place in our time: the convention-defying avant-garde spirit; art that is armored with attitude rather than form; protest against conventional beliefs and systems; the gesture of spitting at the world; meaningless pleasures; and nevertheless, an attitude of pluralism, that last bastion which at least keeps us from turning cynical, maintaining tolerance for the traits and sensibilities of others. Such phenomena define post-modernism. In this sense, the Diogenesian spirit is a distant ancestor of post-modernism.

Kim Dong-jin's paintings are also trees ...

1973 Born in Kongju, Korea
2002 Deft of Painting, College of Fine Art, Mokwon University (B.F.A)
2005 Deft of Animation Art, Graduate school, Kongju University (M.F.A)