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KIM Jong-Kun, <Piling>, blacken canvas, 145.5×112.1cm, 1974
KIM Jong-Kun, <Origin>, Fire work on canvas, 130.3x97cm, 1973
[Korea] KIM Jong-Kun Piling Origin
Kim Jong-Kun participated in the Busan Contemporary Artists Exhibition (1967) and the Subsequent Arts Exhibition (1968) led by the contemporary arts movement in Busan as a member of the Hyuck coterie from 1962. The initial works of Kim Jong-Kun sought after an absolute shape of monochrome that was extremely simple compared to the shapes of objects. From late 1960 he changed to creating works that involved setting fire directly to a screen on which he excluded shapes and colors. Known as the “artist of flame,” he has worked in the arts catching the soot of fire by joining candlelight and matches. He has shown an inclination to embody an intangible essence and original shapes through fire and air, the two basic elements of the universe. His work dealing with flames is a painting with monochrome that acts as a study on the origin of the invisible universe rather than the aesthetics of materials while investigating the essence of painting as a material or plane in which he manages to express a natural view of the world. |
