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| South Korean sculptor depicts the end of a fictional "money game" between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at an exhibition in the Seoul Arts Center. Courtesy of Gachon University |
By Jung Da-min
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stands with a gun pointing ahead.
Just a few steps away, U.S. President Donald Trump is lying on the floor, with $100 bills scattered around him.
This is a scene from South Korean artist Lim Young-sun's latest exhibition, "The Show Must Go On," on until Dec. 19 at the Seoul Arts Center.
Lim, 59, satirizes the two leaders' "power game over nuclear weapons," portraying the leaders' as "children of the empires."
"His artwork describes the situation between the United States and North Korea, which has intensified tensions on the Korean Peninsula," says critic Kim Sung-ho in a review.
"The work satirizing part of international politics where they are in conflict over the nuclear issue as a 'caricatured western film' that resembles 'children's war games' also shows the author's view."
Lim, a veteran sculptor, teaches at Gachon University.
