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exhibits - Sungsoo Kim - Rediscovery - March 26th - May 15th, 2010

In my work with Styrofoam, I try to find something concealed in it. The explicit purpose of this material is to protect products while they are in transit. As such, this material has a vital role in the economic machine, but ultimately it becomes trash. Its only value is conferred to it by the market value of the product it protects. That value is lost as soon as the product it protects is removed. The depreciation is astronomical from a consumer-commodity standpoint, but I think there is still something valuable in it, that the packaging has value as an object itself. My work of recycling packing Styrofoam is then to seek the 'value' which is unseen in its material reality. By taking advantage of a particular type of object - packing Styrofoam - I am rediscovering the concept of 'object' that has been utilized in art since the turn of the twentieth century.

Sungsoo Kim
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$3,800		Rediscovery 0702
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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 100302
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$4,600		Rediscovery 100301
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INQUIRE
Item #100401 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100201 Kiln cast glass 9.5"h x 14.5"w x 4"d $3,800

Item #100415 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 0702 Kiln cast glass 15"h x 15"w x 3.5"d INQUIRE

Item #100402 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100302 Kiln cast glass 13"h x 8.5"w x 3.5"d $4,600

Item #100403 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100301 Kiln cast glass 13"h x 8.5"w x 2.5"d INQUIRE

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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 100304
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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 100305
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SOLD
Item #100404 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100303 Kiln cast glass 25"h x 5.5"w x 4"d INQUIRE

Item #100405 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100304 Kiln cast glass 12"h x 12.5"w x 5"d INQUIRE

Item #100406 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100305 Kiln cast glass 12.5"h x 9.5"w x 7.5"d INQUIRE

Item #100407 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100306 Kiln cast glass 12.5"h x 9.5"w x 5"d SOLD

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SOLD		Rediscovery 090101
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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 090102
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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 08010
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INQUIRE
Item #100408 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 100307 Kiln cast glass 8.5"h x 13"w x 4"d SOLD

Item #100409 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 090101 Kiln cast glass 48"h x 12"w x 4"d INQUIRE

Item #100410 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 090102 Kiln cast glass 33"h x 8.5"w x 8.5"d INQUIRE

Item #100411 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 08010 Kiln cast glass 21"h x 42"w x 3"d INQUIRE

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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 08051
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INQUIRE		Rediscovery 08001
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$12,000		 
Item #100412 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 08052 Kiln cast glass 11"h x 14.5"w x 4.5"d INQUIRE

Item #100413 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 08051 Kiln cast glass 13.5"h x 11"w x 6"d INQUIRE

Item #100414 Sungsoo Kim Rediscovery 08001 Kiln cast glass 40"h x 100"w x 10"d $12,000