2 April - 18 April 2022 Printbakery The Hyundai Seoul
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PBG is pleased to present the exhibition of Kim Kulim, a leader in contemporary art, who best fits the qualifications ‘first’ and ‘avant-garde’. Kim Kulim pursues what others don’t do and what he can do first, and for him, the word ‘avant-garde’ is like a nicely fitting piece of clothing. His art, living and breathing at all times, doesn’t stay within the boundaries of a single genre of ‘art’ but embraces all fields of art including music, dance, performance, and cinema. Kim Kulim’s works are produced through a method of revealing the materiality of paints by using reality and the abstract movement of the brush. Such a method consists of the yin and yang wherein new images are created by erasing existing images. This exhibition commemorates the birth of a wine in collaboration with the artist in a meeting between luxury Italian wine label Tenuta di Arceno and Kim Kulim’s work. Rather than settling for the present, his art flexibly accepts the era, and we hope that the viewers can experience Kim Kulim’s legacy in contemporary art history.
Artist Kim Kulim left his mark on Korean contemporary art while extending his range far and wide over various genres and mediums. Since the 1980s, during his time in New York, he took interest in the question ‘What is nature?’ and focused on how the yin and yang become the essence that forms all things. He began in earnest to deal with this topic in his works. By borrowing and digitally printing existing images and then drawing out and painting over the material traces of paints using a wide brush, he erases existing shape images. The paradoxical process of creating a new abstract image in the process of erasing an image achieves a new creative harmony. The artist continues to engage in artistic experimentation by ceaselessly taking on new challenges.
Rondi Park examines the extremely personal traces surrounding desires and expands the category to popular sympathy and social phenomena. The artist who collects fragments of desire seething in a capitalist society and develops them into various media - such as painting, textiles, performance, and ceramics - develops her own narrative using the constantly reproduced desires as a medium.