Song Of Life-Kim Byung Jong Solo Exhibition

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Opening time:5:00pm,Jan.31, 2015
Duration: 2015.02.01 -- 2015.03.09
Location: exhibition hall of Building No.3, Today Art Museum

Exhibition Preface

When we see Kim Byung-jong's art works, it feels as though expressiveness of life and under the expressiveness, we could find the spirit of Professor Kim's succession of tradition and progress besides innovative technique of expression and method of expression.  

Korean artists, expecially the artists of the day always have special oriental emotion, these emotion certainly proved in professor Kim's art works. The traditional Asia arts have a thread of connection that is from same history, even though it looks different ideas. Specially, the meaning of poetic mood and painting's atmosphere, lyrical language, and the philosophy about unity of the God and man, a view of nature that the expression of oneness of object and subject, and indissociable oriental aesthetic idea, these have been leading the essence of the painting with a long history of Korea, China and Japan. It looks simple, but there are mysterious brush line and stroke, and it drew emotion of infinite variance. These profound and mysterious of difference might seem like a purpose of freehand simple drawing law, and it is the most distinguishing difference between Western art and Oriental art in the industrial society of today. Professor Kim's art work have 'cheerfulness and vividness'. He wanted to expression of existential life, then he realized it by the way of the 'freehand simple drawing'. He draw a delicate stroke of the brush, the painting expressed consciousness in out of awareness, and it has been more clearly proclaimed about praise to life as painting, it seems like there are no reason that flower is not necessity proportional to flower.  The art work put foundation in the oriental aesthetic ideals that includes calm, graceful, fascinating without considering about what kind of preposterous colors and lines they used. In fact, the latest art works are showing in further 'Zen meditation', and professor Kim's art works are shown by traditional sentence and seal. therefore, it appeared artist's traditional aesthetics and  its esthetical respect and accession by becoming one with poet, lettering, painting, seal. ——by Curator Gao Peng

Curator

Gao Peng

Artist

Kim Byung Jong

Works

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