id: 168516 accession number: 2010.263 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.263 updated: 2023-03-23 11:10:05.989000 A Rock That Was Taught It Was a Bird, 2010. Kim Beom (Korean, b. 1963). Stone, wood, wooden table, single channel video on 12-inch flat monitor (1 hr, 27 min, 30 sec; edition 1/3); overall: 146.8 x 220.5 x 127.7 cm (57 13/16 x 86 13/16 x 50 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund 2010.263 © Kim Beom title: A Rock That Was Taught It Was a Bird title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2010 creation date earliest: 2010 creation date latest: 2010 current location: creditline: Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund copyright: © Kim Beom --- culture: Korea, 21st century technique: Stone, wood, wooden table, single channel video on 12-inch flat monitor (1 hr, 27 min, 30 sec; edition 1/3) department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Installation Media type: Mixed Media find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kim Beom (Korean, b. 1963) - artist 1986 - Seoul National University
1991- M.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York --- measurements: Overall: 146.8 x 220.5 x 127.7 cm (57 13/16 x 86 13/16 x 50 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools opening date: 2011-04-21T00:00:00 Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 14, 2010-March 6, 2011); REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theatre), Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (April 21-June 19, 2011). title: Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2018-01-29T05:00:00 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 29-July 16, 2018). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). title: Kim Beom opening date: 2023-07-18T04:00:00 Kim Beom. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (July 18-November 26, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Artist's studio date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This sculptural assemblage is a commentary on authoritarian regimes. digital description: wall description: The man in the video repeats “You are a bird!” to a rock, while a sculptural assemblage to the left features a rock posed like a bird on a bough. A Rock That Was Taught It Was a Bird is one of Kim’s poetic, poignant works on authoritarian regimes—South Korea, for example, during the 1970s and ’80s—where education was frequently used as a tool to influence people’s view about the world and themselves.

Beom Kim is a Seoul-based artist whose mixed-media works are internationally well known. His art explores the intersection of various artistic genres and media including poetry, drawing, video, painting, and installation. Kim often uses ready-made objects—in this work, a wooden table, a stone, and a tree bough—and turns them into a sculptural assemblage. --- RELATED WORKS id: 168781 Study for "A Rock That Was Taught it Was a Bird", 2009. Kim Beom (Korean, b. 1963). Graphite; sheet: 18 x 24 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 2010.473 © Kim Beom relationship: --- CITATIONS McCormick, Sooa Im. “Playbook for Solitude.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 12. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 12. url: --- IMAGES