jaguar Print

Considering first the aspect of form, the way in which Kim Dohoon models his sculptures through a process of weaving iron wire throughout the interior of the sculpture and building up the shape according traditional methods, emphasizes the concept of "formation." The notion of modern sculpture and by extension modern art, as Konrad Fiedler (1841-95) envisioned it in his scholarly writing, lies in independently developing the visible expression of the exteriority of objects according to the sensory effects of the eye; that is, modeling and maintaining an object through form. Consequently, in artistic activity "formation" is the essential practice of actively modeling and developing visual representation, the power to bring visual phenomena to a conclusion through the most solid compositional elements of the visual world. One of Fiedler's contemporaries Adolf von Hildebrandt (1847-1921) developed this discussion in his Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst (The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture,1893)in which he emphasizes Fiedler's sense of meaning in the plastic arts and proposes a problem of "form" in art from a visual and expressive perspective. When we consider Kim Dohoon's sculpture, the early work of figures like Fiedler and Hildebrandt in the area of artistic "form" is highly informative, despite the fact that they seem a little outdated in discussions of the postmodern aspects of contemporary art. Since the European Renaissance, one of the aspects of visual art that has an integral relationship with comprehension is that which, as in architecture, painting and sculpture applies the systematic combination of lines to indicate "formation." Kim's sculptures are not formed by removing unnecessary parts from a whole mass, rather, the process of attaching fragmented parts to a linear skeleton to form a single whole strongly indicates an approach based on integrated modeling. In fact, in order to complete and secure the high sculptures that he is currently working on he has undertaken a course of considered research into structural drawings and frameworks. The linear elements formed into a framework are not the only way in which Kim constructs the supports for his sculpture. Many of these framework assemblages, themselves overlap to create a unified form. In addition, great numbers of specially customized narrow steel plates are soldered together to form a framework of interconnected shapes that make up the completed object. The remnants from the welded parts are then again modeled together with the original contours of the whole shape, giving the impression of a linear skeleton.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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