Writings
Criticisms
On Dreams and Rainbow
Ci Kim is an artist of dreams. His dreams are many and varied. This is because his dreams are not a singular goal to be achieved, but many things he encounters in his daily life that are renewed each and every moment. Therefore, in order for us to explain Ci Kim with the keyword ‘dream’, we need to reconstruct the meaning of the word closer to life and expand the scope of ‘dream.’
2023
Interview
Do you know ARARIO? “Art is Life, Life is Art”
Jeju City’s Tapdong district on Jeju Island is home to ARARIO MUSEUM. It is located approximately ten minutes by car from Jeju International Airport and twenty minutes on foot from the Jeju Port Passenger Terminal. Despite its favorable location, the area had once deteriorated to the point where urban hollowing-out had become a serious concern. Since ARARIO MUSEUM opened last year, however, visitors have begun returning. As if resuscitated by the museum’s arrival, the neighborhood has regained its vitality and rapidly emerged as a new cultural hotspot.
2015
Statements
Who Can Say What?
Having established himself as an entrepreneur, contemporary art collector and gallery owner for over 30 years as well as an artist for over 10 years, Ci Kim has a unique colorful career history. The various interactive relationships that are formed through the exchanges of social and cultural structures surrounding the artist and his personal pursuit for self-realization and understanding hybrid identities forms the essential basis for understanding Kim’s art.
2011
Texts
Ci Kim "A Sad Tiger’s Self Navigation"
So many different kinds of artists have come and gone throughout the history of the world. Some have pursued art as an expression of their religion, for their noble patrons or even for their nation, while some have pursued art with the utopian belief that art could change the world, whereas others were like behaviorists who believed
2007
Criticisms
Contemporary Art Continues
As Marshall McLuhan once said, "Our times search for the problem with the various ways instead of the only way." Today’s artists work without being restricted to certain forms or mediums. This tendency can be called the phenomenon of post-genre or the extension of genre, which theorists call post-modernism. We can clearly see this tendency in the ways that contemporary art after 1970’s unfolds.
2003