A Collectorโ€™s Eye, A Curated Illusion:

The Fictional Collector Who Might Inspire You to Buy Art

Stepping Into Someone's Worldโ€”Or Just a Clever Illusion?

Before stepping into Newspring Projectโ€™s <eyes reflecting the world, Kim Jin-young Collection>, visitors are greeted by a neatly placed pair of shoes at the entrance. This small yet thoughtful detail reflects Korean indoor cultureโ€”where people remove their shoes before entering a homeโ€”immediately creating a sense of intimacy. Itโ€™s a playful and unexpected start, making visitors feel as if theyโ€™ve been invited into a private residence rather than a gallery.

exhibition view of โ€˜Eyes Reflecting The worldโ€™ works from Mr.Jinyoung kim collection, Newspring project, seoul. photo: tasty morsels art.

As you walk in, you momentarily forget that you are in a gallery. A vintage designer chair sits comfortably next to a bookshelf filled with art monographs. A chessboard is laid out in the guest lounge as if a game was about to begin. the artworks subtly placed in the study and bedroomโ€”everything feels like an intimate collectorโ€™s private space.

exhibition view of โ€˜Eyes Reflecting The worldโ€™ works from Mr.Jinyoung kim collection, Newspring project, seoul. photo: tasty morsels art.

The warmth and immersion are powerful. For a moment, it feels like this collection belongs to a real person. But soon, you realize: Kim Jin-young doesnโ€™t exist.

 

Who Is a Collector? This Exhibitionโ€™s Core Question

In the art world, the question is always: "Who bought what?" A single acquisition by a high-profile collector can send an artistโ€™s market soaring, and a collectorโ€™s taste often shapes art history.

But this exhibition doesnโ€™t showcase a real collectorโ€™s collection. Instead, it creates a fictional persona, Kim Jin-young, to explore what it means to collect art.

According to the exhibitionโ€™s narrative, Kim Jin-young encountered surrealist art during a backpacking trip through Europe. Deeply inspired, he later became a successful game company founder and started collecting seriously. His collection includes a balance of conceptual art, modern masters, and emerging contemporary artists.

So, the question remains: Does the collector define the collection, or does the collection define the collector?

 

Blurring the Lines Between Reality and Staging

What makes this exhibition fascinating is its ability to transcend the typical gallery experience.

โœท For a moment, it feels real. The vintage furniture, spatial flow, and subtle lighting create an authentic home-like atmosphere.
โœท Then, you realize the illusion. The artworks and the space itself are all temporary.
โœท Yet, the idea lingers. "What if my home had artworks like these?"

Ultimately, this exhibition doesnโ€™t just display a collectionโ€”it encourages visitors to imagine themselves as collectors. And that, in turn, benefits galleries and the art market.

What This Fictional Collector Reveals About the Art Market

This exhibition isnโ€™t just a playful conceptโ€”it makes us rethink the fundamental nature of collecting and the art market itself.

โœท Do collectors shape art history, or does art history shape collectors?
โœท Is an artworkโ€™s value intrinsic, or does it depend on who owns it?
โœท Is collecting a reflection of pure taste, or a way to build social influence?

Kim Jin-young is fictional, but the questions raised by this exhibition are very real.

 

A Collectorโ€™s Perspective on Art

The exhibition features an "interview" with Kim Jin-young, where he shares his thoughts on collecting:

"Art documents the way we understand the world. Through different cultures, social contexts, personal beliefs, and emotions, we encounter the world either by chance or necessityโ€ฆ Iโ€™ve always been curious about how artists see the world, and I want to understand it through their eyes." - Mr. Jinyoung kim

Though spoken by a fictional figure, this statement encapsulates the essence of collecting: the desire to see the world through art, to make it part of oneโ€™s personal space, and to define oneself through it.

 

plan your visit.

eyes reflecting the world, works from Mr.Jinyoung kim collection

Location: 22, 45-gil, itaewon, Seoul, South Korea

Date: January 15th, 2025 โ€“ February 18th, 2025

hours: Tue - Sun 11:00am - 19:00pm

 
 

์ด ๊ณณ์€ ์ „์‹œ์ธ๊ฐ€, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ง‘์ธ๊ฐ€?

์„œ์šธ ๋‰ด์Šคํ”„๋งํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ <Eyes reflecting on the world, works from Mr.Jinyoung kim collection> ์ „์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๊ธฐ ์ „, ๋ฌธ ์•ž์— ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Ÿฐํžˆ ๋†“์ธ ์‹ ๋ฐœ ํ•œ ์ผค๋ ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ์„ ๋งž์ดํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์‹ค๋‚ด ๋ฌธํ™”์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ์ž‘์€ ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ง‘์— ์ดˆ๋Œ€๋ฐ›์€ ๋“ฏํ•œ ์ฐฉ๊ฐ์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚จ๋‹ค. ์œ ์พŒํ•œ ์‹œ์ž‘๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ „์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด, ์ด๊ณณ์ด ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ž ์‹œ ์žŠ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋นˆํ‹ฐ์ง€ ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋†“์ธ ๊ฑฐ์‹ค, ์ฒด์Šค๋ณด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ์‘์ ‘์‹ค, ์„œ์žฌ์™€ ์นจ์‹ค ์†์— ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค. ์ด๊ณณ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ํ•œ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ๊ณผ ๋ชฐ์ž…๊ฐ์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๋‹ค. ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์ด ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์„ ์†Œ์œ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์‹ค์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณง ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

๊น€์ง„์˜์€ ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

 

์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ž€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ๊ฐ€? ์ด ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ

๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ™”๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ "๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์ƒ€๋Š”๊ฐ€?โ€์ด๋‹ค. ์œ ๋ช… ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ํŠน์ • ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์†Œ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์˜ ์ทจํ–ฅ์€ ๊ณง ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์˜ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค '๊น€์ง„์˜'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ƒ์˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์„ ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ์ทจํ–ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด '์ปฌ๋ ‰ํŒ…'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊น€์ง„์˜์€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ฐฐ๋‚ญ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค‘ ์ดˆํ˜„์‹ค์ฃผ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์ ‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊นŠ์€ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ Š์€ ๋‚˜์ด์— ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐฝ์—…์ž๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ๋’ค ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํŒ…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์—๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋… ๋ฏธ์ˆ , ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ฑฐ์žฅ, ์‹ ์ง„ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์„ž์—ฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์„ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์ด ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€?

 

ํ˜„์‹ค๊ณผ ์—ฐ์ถœ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค

์ด ์ „์‹œ์˜ ๋ฌ˜๋ฏธ๋Š”, ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜๋Š” ์—ฐ์ถœ๋ ฅ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๊ณณ์€ ์ž ์‹œ๋‚˜๋งˆ '์ง„์งœ'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ๋นˆํ‹ฐ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ, ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ํ๋ฆ„, ์€์€ํ•œ ์กฐ๋ช…โ€ฆ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ์ง‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณง ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋„, ๊ณต๊ฐ„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์„ธํŒ…์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค. '๋งŒ์•ฝ ๋‚ด ์ง‘์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด?'

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ์ƒ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ€์ƒ์˜ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ

์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ปจ์…‰ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ๊ณผ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํŒ…์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค.

์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฐ€?
์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋กฏ์ด ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด์— ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด '๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ƒ€๋А๋ƒ'์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋Š”๊ฐ€?
์ปฌ๋ ‰ํŒ…์€ ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์ทจํ–ฅ์˜ ๋ฐ˜์˜์ผ๊นŒ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ผ๊นŒ?

๊น€์ง„์˜์€ ๊ฐ€์งœ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์€ ์ง„์งœ๋‹ค.

 

์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์‹œ์„ 

์ „์‹œ ์„œ๋ฌธ ์† '๊น€์ง„์˜'์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ด ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ, ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์‹ ๋…๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ€๊ณ ๋‚œ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ์ง๊ด€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ ์„ธ์ƒ... ์ €๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋Š˜ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

์ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋Š” ๋น„๋ก ๊ฐ€์ƒ์˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์˜ ๋ง์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํŒ…์ด๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ํ†ต์ฐฐ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์†์—์„œ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์š•๋ง. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ด ์•„๋‹๊นŒ?

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