Kim Byungkwan, South Korea
The Descent I
Acrylic on Canvas
44.1 W x 63.9 H x 1.2 in
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of
Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph
of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his
crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and
in the West from the 10th century. The Descent from the Cross is the 13th
Station of the Cross.
Other figures not mentioned in the Gospels who are often
included in depictions of this subject include St. John the Evangelist, who is
sometimes depicted supporting a fainting Mary, and Mary Magdalene. More on the decent
from the cross
Kim Byungkwan: "What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity (visual habit). Everything there is out there in this world, more or less, provides familiar vision. This familiar vision can be replaced as habit. This habitual vision which every object gives us and creates comfort. However it shuts down all the other possibilities. The habitual vision or visual habit makes us go by the routine ways. It stops us from having adventure and checking out the wonders out there. My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expended to other images. I have strong faith in my work that my personal behaviour may lead us “strangeness within habitual vision off from the track." More on Kim Byungkwan
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