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20/4/2007

Minjung Kim

Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles

The New Works

Minjung Kim's new works continue to embody the use of fire and collage as an alternative to pigment and brush which likewise characterized her previous series, Void in Fullness. The difference between her last and now present series is the radical limitation of the palette in the new work. This monochromatic simplification serves to emphasize the remaining and more subtle elements of scorching, pattern, and line.

In reference to her previous series, Antonio d'Avossa wrote of her use of fire, as follows:
The pyrotechnic system of the image used by Minjung Kim renders the energy of the fire visible…the most surprising aspect to be seen in this analytical correspondence lies in a form of paintings produced without traditional tools – brush and ink – and, at the same time, without the matter that forms it. The invisible flame and the paper which, being burned, is only present by its complete absence. It is this extraordinary and expressive capacity of not being, of the Great Absence attained, discharged, presented and not represented that constitutes the Great Presence in the art of Minjung Kim...from Minjung Kim, Skira, Milan, 2002

Minjung Kim's art is primarily concerned with the expression of ghee (chi in Chinese, ki in Japanese: life force) through a synthesis of Eastern and Western concepts and techniques, as well as those of her own invention, i.e., making images with fire. This invocation of ghee is the fundamental manifestation of the “Great Presence” to which d'Avossa refers.


Biography

Minjung Kim was born in 1962 in Gwangju, South Korea, and currently lives and works in Italy. Kim's first solo museum show outside of Korea was held in the summer of 2003 at the Museo Comunale d'Art Moderna Ascona, Switzerland. This event followed on the 2002 publication of Antonio d'Avossa's Skira monograph, Minjung Kim. Kim's works are held in the public collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and the Bibliothèque Municipale, Colmar, France, the Societe Banche Svizzere Collection, London, England, and the Museo Comunale d'Art Moderna Ascona, Switzerland. Kim's first solo museum exhibition was held in 1991 at the Injae Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea. Her works have also been exhibited at the Hong Ik and Kwanhoon museums, Seoul, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kwachun. Minjung Kim holds an MFA from Hong Ik University where she mastered the both the refinements of classical East Asian painting and the fundamentals of classical Western art. Beginning in 1991, Kim attended the Brera Academy, Milan, Italy, where she studied the work of modern European artists and its intersection with classical East Asian art.

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