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1/12/2014

Byungki Kim

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art MMCA, Seoul

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea presents 60 years of oeuvres of Kim Byungki, "a logical and intellectual art theorist by nature whose susceptibility to the tendency of contemporary American art honed his sharp consciousness for modern logic of plastic art with active participation in the formation of Korean modern abstract art after the Korean War" (Lee Guyeol, 1990). Kim was born in Pyeongyang and experienced newly rising arts such as Surrealism and Abstract Art in Japan at an early age and lived a true modern life. Before the outbreak of the Korean War, he defected to South Korea and served as a painter, critic, educator, and administrator and played a pivotal role in establishing the foundation of Korean modern art. Kim closely investigated on the historical development of Western art since the days of discussing the significance and value of Abstraction during the formative period of Korean abstract art in which Korean art was confronted with a special socio-cultural context with macroscopic viewpoints on the acceptance of Western art. As his works in this period closely resemble "Baekmyo" (white drawing), the artist more than ever recognizes the world with lines as a major medium, and with it, connects the individual mind to the outside objects.

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