Born in Glasgow in 1964, musician, DJ and visual artist Jim Lambie (shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2005) fuses his chosen spheres in his work. "When you put on a record," he says "it's as if the barriers disappear. You're projected into a psychological space. You're not sitting thinking about what you're listening to, you're just listening. You're inside this space that the music has created for you."
Using coloured sculptures, re-workings of everyday objects (including music accessories – vinyl discs and speakers), collage portraits of pop and jazz stars using floral motifs, his works are apprehended like new musical scores: a world built of colour and rhythmic repetition.
Jim Lambie refuses to identify himself with a specific artistic movement. Just as a variety of sounds from different musical sources can be mixed to create a new piece, so everyday life and street objects are combined to created a vibrant, sensitive, "funky" world.
Jim Lambie's work was suggested to the Fondation by Sung Wong Kim, curator of exhibitions at the Atelier Hermès. This is his first solo exhibition in Seoul.
