Korean artist Kim Gil-hu presents a solo exhibition at the White Box Art Museum

sina.com.cn | Sina Collection | 2014.11.11 17:14

Group photo of the opening guests

Exhibition view

 Korean artist Kim Gil-hu's solo exhibition, "Mind Imprint," opened on November 2014, 11 at the White Box Art Museum, curated by Wang Chunchen, will feature 15 works by Kim in the latest four years, and this exhibition is Kim's second exhibition in Beijing after four years. 

Exhibition view 

 Kim has long lived and worked in Daegu, South Korea, and has set up a studio in Beijing in recent years. Daegu's quiet modern pastoral life, deep Buddhist tradition, and increasingly international and multicultural Beijing have become his main nourishments. In recent years, the works have used black lacquer as the material, and through continuous grinding on the canvas, the picture presents a sense of black and heavy relief, trying to depict the ideal portrait of the contemporary sage, but in the end it is empty and helpless. 

Exhibition view

 The faces of the characters in the work are almost expressionless, most of them are closed, and they seem to enter the Buddhist state of meditation, which is directly related to his penchant for creating and thinking in a quiet environment and advocating the spirit of Eastern Buddhism, and the artist says that his creation is "an inner resume sitting on time and space", so through our works, we can enter the artist's heart and dialogue with it. As a middle-class force in Korean art, Kim Gil-hu's art is a new consideration of modern Korean art. The art he pursues is neither overly Westernized, nor blindly classical, but based on the unique introspective experience of Eastern culture. 

 Kim Gil-hu was born in South Korea in 1961 and currently lives and works in Daegu and Beijing. He has participated in many international group exhibitions and held solo exhibitions, and his works have been collected by many art museums.

Mind Imprint | A painting by Kim Gil-Hu in Korea

Curator: Wang Chunchen / Producer: Sun Yongzeng / Exhibition Director: Cao Maochao

Curatorial assistant: Han Xue, Shen Feifei / Organizer: White Box Art Gallery White Box Art Gallery

No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, No. 798, 797 Art Zone, 07 Road, BEIJING, CHINA 

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