id:			169242
accession number:	2011.135.m
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.135.m
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Rediscovery of Poems, 2011. Sungsoo Kim (Korean, b. 1974). Cast glass; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Korean Holiness Church of the Nazarene  2011.135.m

title:				Rediscovery of Poems
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creation date:			2011
creation date earliest:		2011
creation date latest:		2011
current location:		236 Korean
creditline:			Gift of the Korean Holiness Church of the Nazarene 
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culture:	Korea, 21st century
technique:	cast glass
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Glass
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CREATORS

* Sungsoo Kim (Korean, b. 1974)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
	opening date:   2011-03-27T00:00:00
	<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

	title:		Old and New in Korean Art (Korean art rotation)
	opening date:   2022-10-28T04:00:00
	<i>Old and New in Korean Art (Korean art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 28, 2022-April 23, 2023).

	title:		Material and Immaterial in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art (Korean art rotation)
	opening date:   2023-04-28T04:00:00
	<i>Material and Immaterial in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art (Korean art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 28, 2023-February 25, 2024).

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PROVENANCE

	Artist; Cleveland Museum of Art
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wall description:
Sungsoo Kim found his inspiration in discarded
Styrofoam pellets, a type of packaging material,
and utilized them as molds for casting glass.
Kim was fascinated with the different shapes of
the pellets as well as their short life span—after
boxes are opened, pellets lose their value and are
discarded. Upcyled Styrofoam here is transformed
into a powerful poetic line.<br>
<br>The title of this work was inspired by Korean
poet Yu Chi-hwan’s poem “Rock.” As the poet
challenges the commonly accepted binary between
life and death and rebirth and extinction, Kim
transforms each Styrofoam pellet into a line
celebrating renewed life.<br>
<br>“Rock” by Yu Chi-hwan (1908−1967)
<br>When I die, I will become
<br>a rock, never touched
<br>by compassion, joy, or anger.
<br>While being torn down
<br>by wind and rain,
<br>that rock will only whip itself
<br>inwards in eternal, impersonal silence,
<br>and at last forget its own existence.
<br>Floating clouds, distant thunder!
<br>Though it may dream,
<br>it will never sing,
<br>though broken in pieces,
<br>it will never utter a word—
<br>I will become such a rock.
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