2022 아트 바젤 OVR: 2021 (Art Basel Online Viewing Room)

2022.02.10~2022.02.12

Kim Gil Hu: The Night of Chaos By Hakgojae Gallery

 Hakgojae Gallery is pleased to participate in Art Basel OVR: 2021. Our presentation features a curated selection of works by KIM Gil-hu (b. 1961, Korea)

 Hakgojae Gallery is plased to participate in Art Basel Online Viewing Room: 2021. Our presentation features a curated selection of works by KIM Gil-hu (b. 1961, Korea). KIM received significant attention from the art world by being awarded the 11th Korean Art Critics Association Artist Award in April. In 1999, KIM burned 16,000 pieces of his works. It was his way of declaring his volition to rid of his ways from the past and pursue an entirely new picture screen. In 2013, he also changed his name from Kim Dong-gi to KIM Gil-hu (金佶煦), in line with his attempt to transform his identity as an artist. KIM Gil-hu believes that "the core of artistic expression is ridding the desire to fulfill the artist's ego through his artwork." His belief is that one must return to the pure mind of a child and practice the "state when labor is in accord with play and when one is free from obligations and solely acts for oneself" to reach a genuine artistic expression. 

 'The Night of Chaos' indicates the primitive state that precedes all beings. KIM endeavors to forget conventions and return to the essential mind. His use of black, which symbolizes the beginning and end of all things, as the main color traces back to this very context. KIM's paintings entirely reveal the painter's gestures and breath. He focuses on the act of painting itself rather than a subject. 특유의 질박한 필치로, 문명 이전 혼돈의 세계를 화면 위에 펼쳐낸다. 일필휘지의 필법에 찰나의 직관이 실린다. 윤진섭 미술평론가는 “숱한 덧칠로 이루어지는 서양의 그림과는 달리 김길후의 그림은 일획으로 이루어진다”고 언급하며, 그의 “전광석화처럼 이루어지는” 붓질이 “한국의 사극에 등장하는 검객의 칼 솜씨”와 같다고 비유했다. 김길후는 “붓을 들고 흐드러지게 진한 춤을 추는 무당”처럼 자신의 호흡과 직관을 회화의 물성으로 펼쳐낸다.

 KIM Gil-hu uses a large flat brush to create his picture screen. He does not bear a specific subject and paints spontaneously while completely entrusting his body to the paintbrush. The form, abstractly disassembled, leaves room for expansive interpretation. According to the artist, his forms are similar to "when clouds seem like a figure but scatter by the wind and resemble animals or plants." His picture screen "maintains an ambiguous state - not figurative nor abstract; furthermore, both figurative and abstract."

 In the recent works presented in the exhibition, hues such as bronze, copper, and blue meld with one another on a black and white background. Black, the dominant color in the picture screen, is a symbol of nothingness. Black discloses both beauty and ugliness and is also a hue that projects KIM's own chaos and fear. After burning his works in 1999, KIM deserted himself from the outside world for a Shile and immersed himself in achromatic paintings. After continuous efforts, his black picture screens transformed into an embracing color that encompasses possibilities of all colors. This transformation was achieved by endlessly contemplating and exploring his identity amid gloomy reality. 

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2022 아트 바젤 홍콩 (Art Basel HongKong)

2022.05.27~2022.05.29

KIM Gil-hu rids convention and returns to the essential mind. His first solo exhibition at Hakgojae Gallery, The Night of Chaos, opened in July 2021. The artist, who lives and works in China and Korea, received attention from his solo show at Whitebox Art Center (Beijing) in 2014, curated by Wang Chunchen, who was the artistic director of the Chinese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. He was also awarded the 11th Korean Art Critics Association Artist Award in April. This prestigious award is granted to artists who have outstanding artistry and originality. KIM painted The Wise Man (2014) while he was living in Beijing. The picture screen captures the serene Buddha who gifts humankind with enlightenment. The Buddha is offering the flower to the world. KIM changed Buddha's lotus with a lily, which has great significance to the artist. Lilies symbolize KIM's happy childhood memories of times spent with his mother in the garden. The lily, portrayed like a traditional oil lamp, denotes hope and enlightenment, emitting light in the darkness.

2022 선화랑 개관 45주년 기획전 '달의 마음, 해의 마음'

2022.09.15~2022.10.05

 정감적 접근(마음의 세계) Affective approach, world of mind, expressiveness of color

 객관적 세계를 치밀하게 묘사하여 사물의 존재감을 드러낸 극사실주의와는 달리, 마음의 세계를 정감적으로 표현한 작품들을 함께 모아 보았다. 마음은 천태만상이고. 그 표현인 작품 또한 다양할 수 밖에 없다. 이 다원적 세계를 분류하여 범주화할 수는 있지만, 그것이 주는 폐단 또한 없지 않아 해석은 관객에게 맡기고자 한다. 이 파트의 초대작가들은 각자 개성적인 조형언어로 독자적인 세계를 구축한 작가들이다. 마음의 영역을 독특한 필치로묘사하는 가운데 관객과의 소통을 꾀하고자 하는 것이다. / 윤진섭 Yoon Jin Sub