Kim Joo-ho Sculptor Kim Joo-ho pays attention to the subject of ‘communication’ like exchange of gaze, conversation, sympathy among people by simple human figures. The gaze of the artist, dealing with communication, is not grave or serious. His communication, presented as petty little stories, experiences and emotions of kaleidoscopic everyday life in his peculiar humor, is comfortable and friendly as ordinary people around us are accosting us. , describing a man and a woman holding dogs, the couple casts seemingly indifferent glance at each other but their dogs gaze each other. That means the wall between them breaks down and they feel close. Just like them, the couple wants to get closer to each other, but human relationship cannot be entered into so natural and instinctive like the animals’. Even if their hearts are desperate, convention and precaution lie as an obstacle between them. But alas, their intentions are revealed like that! Kim Joo-ho, capturing the aspects of our everyday life with distinguished observation and expression, sometimes goes beyond presenting the faces of living to criticizing social affairs in his works. , parody of the Statue of Liberty, is a work on the United States who is audaciously willing to control the whole world; , a painting from the artist’s experience of being a victim of a chicanery, represents the distress of him. Kim Joo-ho’s works are intimately conveying his messages as stories told by ordinary people’s voices in easy and amusing manner among the deluge of abstruse works of contemporary art wrapped in recondite philosophies.
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