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버려진 것들에게 새 생명을 부여하다 Giving New Life to What Has Been Discarded 자르고, 접고, 뒤틀고, 채색된 알루미늄 조각이 새로운 리듬과 질서로 다시 태어납니다. Sculptor Ki-joo KIM transforms everyday aluminum cans into rhythmic sculptural surfaces — shimmering with vitality once lost.
버려진 것들에게 새 생명을 부여하다
Giving New Life to What Has Been Discarded
자르고, 접고, 뒤틀고, 채색된 알루미늄 조각이 새로운 리듬과 질서로 다시 태어납니다.
Sculptor Ki-joo KIM transforms everyday aluminum cans into rhythmic sculptural surfaces — shimmering with vitality once lost.
버려진 것들에게 새 생명을 부여하다
자르고, 접고, 뒤틀고, 채색된 평면 조각의 리듬.
갤러리소헌의 ‘인연’ 연작전 두 번째 이야기,
조각가 김기주 개인전이 10월 15일부터 28일까지 대봉동 갤러리소헌&소헌컨템포러리에서 열립니다.
김기주 작가는 일상 속에서 쉽게 버려지는 알루미늄 캔과 같은 사물에 주목합니다.
기능을 다해 버려진 캔은 반짝이는 물성과 함께 여전히 인간의 삶과 산업의 흔적을 품고 있습니다.
그는 이를 자르고 접고 변형하고 색을 입히며, 새로운 조형 언어로 다시 태어나게 합니다.
작품 속 반복된 형태들은 단순한 오브제를 넘어 공간의 흐름과 리듬을 만들어내며,
‘더 이상 필요 없는 것들’에 대한 질문을 던집니다.
이 전시는 버려진 것들의 부활이자, 익숙한 일상의 재발견입니다.
Giving New Meaning to What Has Been Deemed Unnecessary
Cutting, folding, twisting, and coloring the surface into sculptural planes.
The second exhibition in Gallery Soheon’s “Connection” series presents a solo exhibition of sculptor Ki-Joo KIM, who tells stories through objects.
Ki-Joo KIM’s 10th solo exhibition will be held at Gallery Soheon & Soheon Contemporary in Daebong-dong from October 15 to 28, 2025.
The artist focuses on discarded materials commonly found in everyday life, such as aluminum cans. These objects, once believed to have fulfilled their purpose and thus easily thrown away, still retain their shimmering and reflective qualities. Within them lie traces of human life, the evolution of industry, and the history of modern civilization. Through his work, Kim seeks to breathe new vitality into what has been abandoned. Each can is meticulously cut, folded, deformed, and painted through repetitive and labor-intensive processes, transforming into a unique sculptural language.
On the painted canvas, the transformed aluminum objects are rhythmically arranged, creating not only a formal composition but also a sense of spatial flow and rhythm—a new order of perception. In doing so, Kim grants new meaning to what humanity has labeled as “no longer necessary.” His work reconfigures familiar objects into unfamiliar visual languages through the medium of upcycling, symbolically reflecting the complexities of modern society—diversity, conflict, tension, and inequality.
This material experimentation and sculptural repetition extend beyond an environmental message, becoming an artistic practice that questions the structures surrounding both humanity and society.
Ki-Joo KIM has maintained a long-standing relationship with Gallery Soheon since his solo exhibitions there in 1997 and 2009. Having evolved from a young sculptor who once captured lyrical memories of nature into one of Daegu’s leading mid-career sculptors, Kim continues to be beloved for his warm and familiar works. Likewise, Director Lee Ok-sun, who opened Gallery Soheon in Bong-san Culture Street in 1991 and relocated it to Daebong-dong in 2022, continues to deepen that connection through exhibitions dedicated to artists with whom the gallery shares a lasting bond. This exhibition marks the second chapter in that “Connection” series—celebrating the enduring relationship between the gallery and sculptor Ki-Joo KIM.
Kim earned both his BFA and MFA in Sculpture from Yeungnam University, where he currently serves as an adjunct professor in the College of Fine Arts. His works are included in numerous public collections, including KBS Daegu Broadcasting Station, Daegu Opera House, Pohang City Hall, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu Metropolitan Police Agency Muhak Library, and Gyeongnam Art Museum.
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