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Kim Beom

HOW TO BECOME A ROCK

Leeum Museum of Art

JUL 27

DEC 3

Since the 1990s, we see) in order to reveal the folly of perception, highlight inherent bias, and expose the contradictory nature between objects and their function. His retrospective at Leeum was a sweeping appraisal of more than 70 works, from the sculptural (1995) and (1992), made from a length of barbed wire, to his video (2010), in which an antelope chases a cheetah, and his parody of expressionist painting, (2012). Blackly amusing, Kim’s works are suffused with an unalloyed desire to probe the increasingly strange world we inhabit.

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