
Kim Chansong
About
Kim Chansong expresses lush and ambiguous gardens filled with green using thick, textured oil paints. At first glance, these dense gardens may appear familiar, but they depict a landscape where native seeds and plants taken from foreign lands intertwine, creating a place where familiarity and unfamiliarity coexist by chance. The initial concept of trophies growing in the gardens of European aristocrats during the colonial era is reinterpreted through the artist’s unique visual language. In this way, the artist blurs and rearranges the boundaries of the familiar, engaging in a form of painterly storytelling.
김찬송은 초록이 가득한 울창하고 모호한 정원을 두꺼운 질감의 유채로 표현한다. 언뜻 보기에 익숙한 이 울창한 정원은 본래의 땅에 자생하던 종자와 이국의 땅에서 훔쳐온 식물이 한데 엉킨 풍경으로, 익숙함과 낯섦이 공존하는 우연의 장소로 역할을 한다. 작업의 단초인 식민시대 유럽 귀족의 뜰에 자라난 전리품의 상징은 작가의 독특한 시각언어로 재구성되는 셈이다. 작가는 이처럼 친숙한 것의 경계를 흔들고 새로이 뒤섞이며 일종의 회화적 글쓰기를 집필한다.
Selected Works
Untitle
80.3x116.8cm Oil on canvas 2021

Untitle80.3x116.8cm Oil on canvas 2021
어떤 산책
53x72.7cm Oil on canvas 2020

어떤 산책53x72.7cm Oil on canvas 2020
A deeper place
80.3x116.8cm Oil on canvas 2019

A deeper place80.3x116.8cm Oil on canvas 2019
A windy day
91x65cm Oil on canvas 2020

A windy day91x65cm Oil on canvas 2020
The eternal waves
45.5x45.5cm Oil on canvas 2020

The eternal waves45.5x45.5cm Oil on canvas 2020
The scent of summer
116.8X80.3cm Oil on canvas 2020

The scent of summer116.8X80.3cm Oil on canvas 2020
Them
53x72.7cm Oil on canvas 2020

Them53x72.7cm Oil on canvas 2020
While I am walking
45.5x45.5cm Oil on canvas 2021

While I am walking45.5x45.5cm Oil on canvas 2021
Exhibitions