A Spectrum of Colors and Light
Artist Youngjin Kimdissolves a utopian worldview that transcends reality into a spectrum of colors and light. His recent works reveal a more refined style, gradually freeing themselves from stylization. Summarized as an aesthetics of warm innocence, his oeuvre can be called paintings with poetry—a synthesis of flowers and nature, reality and ideals—woven together through more than a hundred hues.
Round forms infused with the energy of hope transform at times into flowers, at times into stars. Radiant surfaces are transposed into the energy of lines, manifesting a world that is luminous, clear, and serene. His imagination, rooted in lived experience, turns into stories soft as cotton candy; the quiet dialogues of families gathered together become reimagined as a forest utopia.
In Rainbow Blossom, white porcelain orbs are adorned with delicate flowers, while clusters of energy drift in layered suspension between each work, illuminating one another. This miniature cosmos of countless dots becomes a reflection of the greater universe, where air itself patterns life into energy. Above the forest, a glowing moon floats gently, illuminating the darkness, while an idyllic landscape unfolds into a heaven-like time that calls for innocence. In a world where cruel adult fairy tales prevail, Kim’s philosophy of art is to dream of eternal peace.
