Incredible Hyper-realist Paintings by Young-Sung Kim
D Pos - An artist based in New York and Korea, Young-Sung Kim produces incredibly hyper-realist paintings of various reptiles, fish and insects.
In an economically driven world where we place value on the material, Kim challenges society values being firmly rooted in commerce. Since the early 2000s he Kim has concentrated his exploration of life on small living creatures such as snails, frogs and goldfish.
Kim uses contrasting subject matter to illustrate the distinction between the living and the material, it seems that as a society our ideas of how something is valued are intrinsically rooted in commerce.
This series expresses the modern society where lives are threatened and many things have disappeared due to the advanced development of material civilizations.
The coexistence of objects representing Life and Object are shown as a piece of advertisement or theatrical piece to analyze and depict the phenomenon cold-heartedly to express the desolation of modern society and nihilism of modern people and to reveal humans’ negligence of life.
Young-sung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1973. Representative Gallery: Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York & Plus One Gallery, London.
