Mr. Kim

A restaurant made singular — interior spray with LED frame, in the heart of Turin.

Mr. Kim is an interior mural with LED installation created by artist Neve in 2017 at Mr. Kim restaurant, Corso Vinzaglio, Turin.

"Mr. Kim" is a large-scale interior mural painted by Neve in 2017 for the Mr. Kim restaurant at Corso Vinzaglio 9/f in Turin — a Korean and Asian fusion dining space. The work combines freehand spray on wall with an integrated LED strip frame that borders the composition in red, creating a glowing neon-like boundary between the image and the dark surrounding wall. The subject is an elder Asian man — Mr. Kim himself, the symbolic figure behind the restaurant — painted in Neve's signature hyperrealist style. He wears a traditional woven bamboo hat, its complex interlaced structure rendered in meticulous detail, and a white beard that catches light against the shadows. His face is lit with a dramatic split: the left side (from the viewer's perspective) bathed in deep red, the right in cold blue-teal — the chromatic language of the neon city rendered directly on skin and cloth. Behind him, barely legible but insistently present, an Asian night-street stretches into the background: signage, alleyways, the ambient glow of a city after dark. Tropical leaves press in from either side of the foreground — a lush, slightly exotic surround to the central face. The composition sits within and against the black wall of the restaurant interior, and the red LED frame that Neve integrated into the work draws the mural into the physical space, making it architecturally present rather than merely decorative. Neve's tag is visible in the upper right corner.