Al Mureijah Art Spaces 2
Part 2 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.
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Venue: SAF Art Spaces, building I
Works from the series Sunday Paintings. 2001 –
Acrylic and ink on canvas, mounted on panel
36 x 36 cm each
Byron Kim has long distilled his approach to life and art in a conceptual practice marked by studies of colour and abstraction. Sunday Paintings is an ongoing series of modest square paintings of the sky, created by Kim every Sunday since 2001. Carrying his prepared panels with him as he travels, Kim paints a portrait of the sky each week, then inscribes a few momentary thoughts of the day, dating each panel with his location. Both a record of the sky and his life, these paintings serve as a diaristic record and collection of time. The series emerged from Kim’s encounter with the work of Chuang Tze, a Taoist philosopher who wrote about the relationship of the infinite to the infinitesimal. Sunday Paintings embody a personal cosmology that contrasts the everyday against the everything.
See also his works at
Corniche
Sharjah Art Museum
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB12 Guidebook
Part 2 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.