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Kim Sunwoo’s solo exhibition, has held in GANA BUSAN from March 17 to April 9 with Print Bakery. Artist Kim Sunwoo is a representative contemporary star artist and has been loved despite his young age, born in 1988.

Kim Sunwoo draws extint Dodo bird. Dodo bird lived on the island of Mauritius. Dodo birds were originally able to fly, but they gave up flying on their own in a comfortable environment without natural enemies, therefore they become extinct by human who visited the island. People named this flightless bird Dodo, which means stupid. However, Kim Sunwoo thought that this tragedy is trying to give a message to modern people.
He think that people today also limit their own possibilities in compromise with reality, and forget about their dreams as dodo birds did. However, the Dodo, which was reborn through his artwork, is no longer a ‘fool bird that cannot fly’, but a creature with the possibility of flying again, giving an experiential encouragement to drifting modern people not to lose their dreams.

Kim Sunwoo left for Mauritius Island for a month in 2015, with the support of the , which provides artists travel opportunities, studied about Dodo bird, and has been talking about modern people’s dreams and possibilities.
Kim Sunwoo, also known as ‘Dodo bird Artist’ because of his Dodo painting, is presenting diverse attempts at this exhibition. First of all, the most notable attempt was to take the dodo bird out of the canvas, which was always on the canvas screen. This does not mean that the dodo bird has disappeared. The artist creates a dodo bird sculpture and places it on the top or bottom of the canvas. Kim Sunwoo says he wants to talk about the expansion of the imagination and possibilities of his work by presenting these various new attempts through this exhibition.

His another new attempt is that he collaborated with novelist. Oh Hanki, widely known as the novel wrote the short story adding a new interpretation to Kim Sunwoo’s work in this exhibition. Through this short story, we can see how Oh Hanki expressed his thoughts after meeting Kim Sunwoo in a stream of consciousness. Part of the story can be found in the gallery, but entire text can only be seen by purchasing the artbook. The book, with an ISBN number, can be purchased in GANA BUSAN, Print Bakery, and other specialist bookshops for artbooks including The Book Society online/offline.
This the exhibition was created in collaboration with various people in addition to novelist, Oh Hanki. Media Bus, South Korea’s leading independent bookstore, participated in the editing and distribution of the book, and the famous designer group Workroom was in charge of exhibition design such as key visual. And film director and pianist Oh Jaehyung, who had been in a relationship even before Kim Sunwoo became famous, participated in the exhibition by writing a short letter about Kim Sunwoo.
Check out Kim Sunwoo’s new appearance and various attempts through this exhibition, and hope this will be an opportunity to predict his future.