KIM SANGYEOUL
secret garden

secret garden acrylic on canvas 122X122cm 2011
THE SECRET GARDEN & THE GIVING TREE
PROLOGUE
Kim Sang-yeoul's evocative "Secret Garden" series captures the mystery and subtlety of our most cherished memories.
Kim's delicately formed branches, leaves, and vines emerge from the shadows of our mind and fog of time, a bridge between the present and the past. His works at first appear to be photographic - a grainy and romantic black and white from the camera of a great master - but they are undoubtedly painterly. This illusion is an allusion to the imperfect process of memory... we remember but we embellish, we take out hazy recollections and create something familiar but something new. Kim's works have that comfortable familiarity but they also challenge us to look a little deeper, to reflect a little more on what in fact we are seeing. Indeed, we can easily lose ourselves in his canvases, wandering among the leaves ... in and out of their foggy embrace.
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director Horatiu G. Stefan