Title of art	계단 형태-연단 1/Stairs Construction-Podium 1			Sector	Sculpture (조각)
Art specifications	328?152.5?152.5cm			Material technique	Paint on bronze, microphone
Collection year	2012			Production year	2011
Gallery	Seoul Museum of Art			Artist	gimhongsok
Description of art	“Stairs Construction-Podium 1” (2011) is an extension of his previous public art project “Public Blank” (2006-2008), with which Gim proposes public monuments reflecting his subjective view on “the public” with simple drawings and explanations. In this work, common paper boxes, cast in bronze, are piled up in an unstable construction, and a microphone is set up next to them, making an unrealistic podium that cannot serve its function. The installation takes the form of a podium, whose intrinsic purpose is for public speech, but it merely remains a symbolic object composed of everyday disposable materials, with the podium’s purpose of “speech” completely removed. Through this work, Gim challenges the concepts of the public, public art, and public monuments?to which contemporary art has paid keen attention?and suggests a new approach to these subject matters.
Address	61, Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul			Source	Seoul Metropolitan Government