Gallery Baton is pleased to present an exhibition titled Iconophilia: Seoul Edition—a selection of works by Song Burnsoo, Kim Bohie, Liam Gillick, Tatsuo Miyajima, Rinus Van de Velde, Markus Amm, and others.
Arthur Danto famously declared that the era of pluralism had arrived, saying that there was no longer any style that could be applied to art. In an environment with an absence of a prevailing art movement, the outcomes of creation have become as diverse as the freedom given to the process of selecting subjects and delivering the performance of works.
Even in these revolutionary times, artists' maniacal love for images that commonly function as a motif in their works has not changed, but rather, this desire and obsession with collecting seems to have increased due to the ubiquity of images enhanced by IT technology.
The desire to accumulate and explore the "image" which can develop in any form, be it factual, tactile, transcendental, sublime, kitsch and material, resembles humanity's long-standing attitude towards possessing goods.
The exhibition will provide an opportunity to see the origin of the appropriated images and how the selected images acted as media that projected the artists' desire to create them through the work of selected participating artists.
Participating Artists: Kim Bohie, Song Burnsoo, Koh San Keum, Bae Yoon Hwan, Hoh Woo Jung, Choi Soo Jung, Yuichi Hirako, Rinus Van de Velde, Markus Amm, Liam Gillick, Tatsuo Miyajima, and Peter Stichbury.