'This is an age where editing is a required process for art-making, in place of creating. Furthermore, the age of 'development-creativity' has come to a close, and one can now declare an age of 'collection-compilation.' As I move forward towards the 'deconstructed self' from my initial 'modernist self' I will no longer create new works. Instead, I will present those I have reinterpreted, restructured, and reappropriated from my previous works.
-Kim Yong-Ik
Kim Yong-Ik was born in Seoul in 1947 and graduated from Hongik University in 1980 with an MFA in Painting. He served as a professor of Painting at the Arts and Design College in Gachon University (former Kyungwon University) from 1991 to 2012. In 1999, Kim co-established Art Space Pool (former Alternative Space Pool), one of the first alternative art spaces in Korea, and served as its representative member from 2004 to 2006. As an enduring critic, writer, and an artist for the past four decades, Kim has been working in various contexts spanning modernism, the Minjung art, land art, and public art, continuously questioning his practice and art. Following his successful retrospectives at Ilmin Museum of Art (2016) as well as Spike Island, Bristol and Korean Cultural Centre UK, London (2017), Kim's oeuvre has been garnering increasing attention from the international audience. The extensive practice of Kim's career will also be presented at Art Basel Hong Kong Kabinett sector from March 29 to 31, 2018.
Established in the heart of Seoul in 1982, Kukje Gallery is a leading Korean gallery dedicated to showcasing works by Korean and international artists and promoting modern and contemporary art. At 54 Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu, the gallery has 3 key exhibition spaces, respectively named K1, K2, and K3. In 2018, the gallery opened a second location in F1963, a cultural complex housed in a former wire factory in Suyeong-gu, Busan.
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