When Art meets the 20th century

I was delighted to stumble onto the work of Koreanartist Kim Yong Soo whose artwork, at first glance, takes on thesomewhat familiar appearance of traditional Japanese paintings of cherry treebossoms. Closer inspection reveals a textured assemblage of semi-conductors,speaker wires, and acrylic cement, used to form the delicate tree branches,flowers, and ominous humanoid figures that bring an unexpectedly dark presenceto these otherwise serene paintings.