THE ONE PIECE OF ART ?
< THE ONE PIECE OF ART >, organized by ARTBN, is an exhibition-type art project that focuses on a single piece of work by a selected artist and shows the artist's art world in more depth, along with a production video.
김나리 개인전 / THE ONE PIECE OF ART: DEMETER / 원피스아트, 아트비앤 서울
THE ONE PIECE OF ART
DEMETER
KIM NA RI
<When Talking About Clouds>
SEPTEMBER 22 - NOVEMBER 05, 2022
We are introducing the fourth project of THE ONE PIECE OF ART,
KIM NA RI's solo exhibition, 'DEMETER,' <When Talking About Clouds>.
Through this exhibition, artist KIM NA RI captures new energy and vitality through many years of perseverance as if coming out of a long tunnel.
'DEMETER,' symbolizing artist KIM NA RI's art, is one of the 12 Olympians in Greek mythology and refers to the goddess of the earth. "DEMETER" is the ruler of all nature and the god who presides over the seasons and brings abundance to the planet through conception, the birth of new life, blessings, natural circulation, order, and continuity.
"On a high, blue autumn day, this exhibition will be complete finally
when someone with free arms walks into the exhibition hall,
makes eye contact with this work and stops."
-Artist KIM NA RI
Creating and completing each piece of work while containing new energy and vitality requires a lot of energy and time, just like raising a living organism. The primary material of the work is natural soil, and life is born from that wild land. And it is like receiving the sun's energy in the ever-changing natural environment to embrace and grow life on the earth. Like Demeter, who oversaw the earth's abundance through the planet's power, artist KIM NA RI repeats the battle against absolute time, kneading, stacking, combing, shaping the soil, and baking it in a hot oven for several days.
'I stopped where I was going and looked at myself.
When I look at the footsteps that led me
My life will run out.
To the one who will ruin me and lead me to death
'I gave myself completely.'
-Marques <Love and Other Demons>
In THE ONE PIECE OF ART, a piece of work shows that only after extreme patience can a new living being of the highest beauty be created as a work of art. The video and one-piece work was completed with the meaning of returning to nature, conveying new hope and love in the artificial land where we live, in a rapidly changing city, after long-suffering.
ARTBN X Sparky VC produced the video co-production.
(Copyright @ ARTBN)
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2000. Graduated from the Department of Ceramics, Graduate School of Industry, Seoul National University of Technology
1989 Graduated from the Department of Art Education, Korea National University of Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022. THE ONE PIECE OF ART : DEMETER KIM NA RI, <When I Talking About Cumulus>, ARTBN, Seoul
2022. <Flowing Breath>, Sono Art Gallery, Seoul
2021. <Tears>, Bom Farmers Garden Gallery, Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi
2017 <Finding the Way>, Gallery Hee, Yangsan, Gyeongnam
2014 <Thinking about you - fragile>, Gallery Hee, Yangsan, Gyeongnam
2010 <Love for N>, Lee Mok Gallery, Seoul
2008 <The Sadness of Living>, Weibang Gallery, Seoul
2000 1st Solo Exhibition, Bulam Gallery, Seoul
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022. 'Source of Inspiration - Hangul, which Yun Dong-ju loved, (Korean Cultural Center, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary)
2021. ‘Source of Inspiration - The first idea found in Korean traditional culture, (Yeongwol Integrated Tourism Center, Yeongwol, Gangwon)
2021 ‘Hangul, Awakening Synesthesia’, (Sabina Museum of Art, Seoul)
2021 ‘DMZ Culture and Arts Sammaekyeong’ (Gangwon Cultural Foundation, Goseong, Gangwon)
2021 ‘Living as an Artist’, (Posco Art Museum, Seoul)
2020 ‘My Own Song’, (Sabina Museum of Art, Seoul)
2018 Gyeonggi Millennium Docu Festa <Gyeonggi Archive_Now,> (Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, Suwon)
2017 ‘Unfamiliar, Familiar’ Exhibition by Kim Na-ri and Jeong Jeong-yeop (Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Lobby Gallery, Suwon)
2017 Unexpected; Thirst for Understanding, artbn, Seoul
2011 Neighboring Form, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyung
2010 Wind without a word, G-being Gallery, Seoul
2001 World Ceramic Biennale, World Ceramic Center, Icheon
2000 Forest of Human Beings and Forest of Painting, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
1999 Seoul Contemporary Ceramics Juried Exhibition, Press Center, Seoul
1999 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju