Kim Tschang-Yeul
By: text by Barbara Pollack
Contributors: Almine Rech Gallery
Publisher: Almine Rech Gallery
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9782930573274
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Kim Tschang-Yeul is one of the greatest living Korean painters. Born in 1929 in the North of the then unified Korea, he migrated to the South to escape the communist regime. He subsequently left for New York to pursue his artistic dreams before finally settling in Paris in 1969. There, he began to nurture, over a period of forty years, a unique motif: the drop of water. The waterdrop is the starting point for a singular and iconic body of work, which stands at the confluence of lyrical abstraction, Pop Art and Chinese calligraphy. This simple and limpid œuvre subtly fuses Taoist wisdom, modern conceptual irony and the tragedy of war.00Exhibition: Almine Rech Gallery, New York, USA (06.03.-14.04.2018).
Notes: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kim Tschang-Yeul, held at Almine Rech Gallery, New York, from March 06 to April 14, 2018."

Includes bibliographical references and index.