{"id":10635,"date":"2024-05-15T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2024-05-14T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:57:04","slug":"kimsooja-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/kimsooja-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimsooja at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titled \u2018Meta-Painting,\u2019 Korean artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimsooja.com\">Kimsooja<\/a>\u2019s exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyabonakdargallery.com\/exhibitions\/790-kimsooja-meta-painting-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-new-york\/\">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a> questions the essence of painting via an installation of unpainted panels and a light-absorbing black orb.\u00a0 In one of the gallery\u2019s main spaces, raw linen on stretchers hang from the ceiling while the artist\u2019s signature bottari (a cloth bundle referencing the act of packing one\u2019s belongings in bedclothing) rest nearby.\u00a0 Kimsooja speaks of both panels and bundles as paintings, though they were not made with paint, much as Deductive Object \u2013 a welded steel oblong covered in paint that absorbs ambient light \u2013 has presence in its own gallery yet has boundaries that are difficult to perceive.\u00a0 Linked to the Brahmanda stone of Indian origin, this mysterious object hints at profound mysteries of life. (On view through June 14<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2729px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/361427c3-85d8-52d7-10f5-e0ba577d1d78.jpg\" width=\"2729\" height=\"3171\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimsooja, Deductive Object, painted welded steel, mirror, wood, 72 x 43 \u00bc x 43 \u00bc inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titled \u2018Meta-Painting,\u2019 Korean artist Kimsooja\u2019s exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery questions the essence of painting via an installation of unpainted panels and a light-absorbing black orb.\u00a0 In one of the gallery\u2019s main spaces, raw linen on stretchers hang from the ceiling while the artist\u2019s signature bottari (a cloth bundle referencing the act of packing one\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/kimsooja-at-tanya-bonakdar-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kimsooja at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10880,117,10879,13,10878,10881,10,121],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-brahmanda-stone","tag-chelsea","tag-deductive-object","tag-gallery","tag-kimsooja","tag-meta-painting","tag-sculpture","tag-tanya-bonakdar-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10636,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}