Title of art	Beginning Day-Vicia Terasperma, Nikko Hotel, Guam/Beginning Day-Vicia Terasperma, Nikko Hotel, Guam			Sector	Photo (사진)
Art specifications	145?100cm			Material technique	Digital inkjet print
Collection year	2019			Production year	2003
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	KIM Jung Man
Description of art	This is a photograph of flowers that Kim Jung Man has taken for 20 years while traveling around the world, including South Korea, Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, and Guam. The photograph was presented in his solo exhibition 《Naked Soul》 and later published in his photo essay 『Naked Soul』(2005) among his 111 representative works. The artist captured the shapes of flowers in a close-up and expressed the beauty of the colorful and fascinating flowers as well as a passion for life. In order to maximize the original and mysterious feeling of flowers, he placed the base in black, red, and white colors, and sometimes waited until the flowers dried up. For Kim Jung Man, flowers were also a way to demonstrate eroticism, which is often concealed or excessively implied by modern people. Through this work, the artist conveys his idea that human desires should be sincerely communicated, cherished, and shared with one another.
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