By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
Portraits of famous figures such as Albert Einstein, James Dean, Kim Il-sung, Osama bin Laden and Heath Ledger line the walls of Shinhan Gallery, in Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul.
From afar, the art works look like the grainy, lined images of old black-and-white television screens. But upon a closer look, one realizes the pieces are made out of black TV cable.
Korean artist Insane Park created portraits of these widely recognizable figures for his on-going exhibition ``The Attack by Media.''
In an interview with The Korea Times at the gallery last week, Park said the works are his reaction to the dominating influence of the mass media in today's society.
``I use well-known images of famous people in the media. I would see all these images of famous people from the television every day. We see it even though we don't want to. We don't even know much about these people, who we see on TV, in movies and in music. I feel very much `attacked' by these images when I see them,'' he said.