Kim Simonsson is a Finnish sculptor/ceramist. His childlike figures and animals look as if they escaped out of a Manga comic book, though they have western features. His work is a bit dark and uncomfortable yet sensitive.
Kim Simonsson: "In my sculptures western traditional ceramic is combined with modern trends of easten pop culture. So, in my opinion, I get an unusual and very interesting effect. I create my own world of strange characters that are my comments on daily life and its oddities.
My images seem dark to you? No wonder: I examine the diseases of modern society, and they are quite unsightly.
The subject of my work, as a rule, are children, animals, or something in between. An important detail: all my sculptures have glass eyes, they seemed to enliven cold dead matter."
