The month-long Korean Contemporary Artist Exhibition which is being held at the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong in collaboration with Art Chosun on March 27-April 27 will have on display the art works of Korea’s leading 1st to 3rd generation artists.
The exhibition which is being organized to commemorate first anniversary of the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, would also have on display the art work of 3rd generation of Korean contemporary artist Kim Deok Han.
Kim Deok Han was invited by Korean Cultural Centre of India too to participate in India Art Fair 2019 in New Delhi on January 31-February 4 this year only.
Korean Contemporary Artist Exhibition is meaningful in a sense that it is the collaboration between the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong and Art Chosun, two institutions which aim to promote the excellence of Korean contemporary art and advance the artists to overseas markets.
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In addition, the exhibition kicks off with Art Basel Hong Kong, which would attract the attention of world artists and art lovers. The event is sponsored by Seoul Art Guide and directed by LEE Hye Min.
At the exhibition hall on the 6th floor of KCC, there would consists of the works of Korea’s 1st generation leading artists, Suh Seung won and Hwang Yong yop, along with the works of the 2nd generation artist Kim Keun Tai.
On the 7th floor, the works of the 3rd generation of Korean contemporary artist Kim Deok Han and Yoon Jong Ju will be on display, and five artists who would participate in the exhibition will come up with their own artworks that have witnessed the beauty of Korea.
The 1st generation artist Suh Seung won who focused on his art work through traditional medium has turned contemporary art into his own version with a consistent theme over the half a century while artist Hwang Yong yop has been telling his life of experiencing war on the canvas.
And the works of artist Kim Keun Tai, the 2nd generation of Korean contemporary art, can be seen, as a painter who devoted himself to revealing inner world through materials.
Moreover, Kim Deok Han who was selected to discover various artists of Korean contemporary arts builds up his own world by repeatedly coloring and peeling revealing both past and present on the same canvas with Korean traditional techniques and materials such as ‘lacquer’ or the Oriental traditional paint which is well preserved for thousands of years.
The Image overlaid through the repeated brush strokes implies the record of time and space, while the past traces would be shown up like ‘an Oriental line.’
Artist Kim Deok Han who has used the lacquer for a decade attempts to record and stuff our identity on his canvas with the spirit of craftsmanship.The artist’s ideology that the current look arises from the overlapped record of the past would be restored in the cycle of the universe continuing to appear and disappear, and thus, the value of his existence would be recovered.
The works of Yoon Jong Ju, who expresses meditative atmosphere as well as color of the East with the materials of the West, is definitely one of the promising artists in Korea.
The Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong and Art Chosun hope to raise awareness of the excellence of Korean contemporary art and the “unique spirit” of Korea as well as to exchange sense of art between Korea and Hong Kong through “Korean Contemporary Artist Exhibition”, which marks the first anniversary of the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong.
