Nos Années Sauvages, 2009

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We are coming through in waves, 2009

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Do not gentle into that good night, 2009

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Epilation porcine au service de l’art, 2008

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It is actually a matter of posology, 2009

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Tell Barbara that it is gold, 2009

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Don’t play with art, it’s food, 2008

all drawings © KIM SEOB BONINSEGNI

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KIM SEOB BONINSEGNI (born in Seoul in 1974) has engaged, in the past decade, in a complex practice that does not distinguish between art production, curating, writing, and publishing. Additionally he uses a wide range of mediums to crystallize a network of objects, shapes, and images in which he connects the language, the power of the market, the consumption with his personal history.

I like to focus on his ink-on-paper comic-like drawings, a sophisticated mash-up of global pop-culture with disturbing, ironic and ambiguous captions:

Kim is not opposing the system in general through heavy attacks with raw sounds or obscene imagery. It is not an opposition against the political or cultural or social establishment. (..) It is an opposition against the meaningless of new visuals, even if they are successfully sold out. – by WOLF GÜNTER THIEL

KIM SEOB BONINSEGNI is represented by Guy Bärtschi Gallery in Geneva and KARMA International in Zurich.

He lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.