Sangbin Im
dal 29/11/2006 al 29/1/2007
Segnalato da
29/11/2006
Sangbin Im
Cristinerose Gallery, New York
Tha artist creates digitally manipulated photographs by interconnecting numerous pictures he has taken over a period of several hours. His works show the relationship between the real and the virtual, the part and the whole appearance and manipulation.
Photographs
Cristinerose Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of new photographs
by
Sangbin Im.
Sangbin Im, a Korean artist who currently lives in New York, creates
digitally manipulated photographs by interconnecting numerous pictures he has taken
over a period of several hours. His works show the relationship between
the real and the virtual, the part and the whole appearance and manipulation.
His seamless exaggerated architectural scapes are extravagant spectacles
that find their inspiration in the critical interpretation of advertising,
where everything is bigger than life. As a photographer, he is interested in
the ways in which many contradictory modes of viewing and re-viewing the world
interact. His architectural scapes not only demonstrate what we believe to
be true can constantly be challenged by what we see, but also investigate how
the status of truth is opened to question by examination of the complex
relationship between appearance and perception.“
His City Scape series is staged in Seoul and New York, each magnificent in
scale, replete with history. All of which Sangbin Im is familiar with as a
resident of both megalopolises. In this series, he focuses on symbolic and
grandiose buildings such as old royal palaces and transforms their historical
images into fantastical and modernized versions of the original. The buildings,
streets, monuments and palaces photographs: they seem familiar at a distance;
a closer look reveals ambiguity, and the familiar looms strange and alien
Sangbin Im majored in painting at Seoul National University in Korea. He
then moved to the United States, where he received an MFA in painting and
printmaking at Yale University. Currently, he lives in New York City while
working on a doctoral degree in art and art education at Columbia University.
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 30, 2006, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Cristinerose Gallery
529 West 20th Street - New York