Collage of Memories

By Lee Dae-Hyung

 Kim Gil-Hu spends most of his time on the canvas, where there is always a heated battle of impulses. This is why he has such clear awareness of his self. His struggle is not against artistic style. It is a struggle against his own impulses, or his own life. He suffers from the agony of a man who cannot and does not distinguish between his life and his art. The only assistance he can expect in this struggle is from his artist's hands and the sensations he receives through his skin. Kim Gil-Hu does not allow the pictorial space to become an object separate from himself. His art strives for a thorough self- incarnation because in his world, he is his art. This is the significance of his inner transcendence.