CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS OF KOREA
till April 22nd, 2008
Professor Doo Shik Lee belongs to the most important and influential artists of South Korea. He was born at Yeongju in 1947 and studied Fine Art at the Hongik University/ Seoul in the 1960ies. Numerous exhibitions in Asia, America and Europe have made him well- known all over the world. In the 1990ies, his works were shown as part of a group exhibition in Germany for the first time. At the moment Prof. Lee is dean of the department of Fine Art at the internationally famous Hongik- University. It is obvious that his opinion is highly regarded when looking at his employment as official commissioner of the South Korean foreign Ministry for Art Affairs.
Ki Woong Park, professor, curator and excellent artist is known for a protagonistic understanding of art that is based on the highest level of quality. According to him art is found on both good craftsmanship and the highest level of artistic creativity, also on the development of new methods as well as detailed knowledge of the important existing theories of art. A contribution of all these aspects can be found in the artist and art professor Ki Woong Park.
Professor Jong-Shik Shin is head of the Department of Painting at Hongik University and belongs to the leading artists in his home country. As a frontier crosser between Asian and European art traditions, Shin takes an especially interesting position in the international art scene. Born in 1957, the artist first studied Fine Art in his home country South Korea, and afterwards, in the 1980ies, he went to Paris to continue his studies in Painting and Art History at some Paris Universities, among them the Sorbonne.
Professor Tae-Ho Kim is a diligently working artist who despite of a numerous number of international awards and prizes, many international representations in museums and an immense number of exhibitions has remained modestly and industriously at the same characteristic style of his own. He works with pain in several layers of acrylics and creates compositions which form a honeycombed pattern. These square cells symbolize the isolation and solitude of the modern urban man.
Tae-Ho Kim is one of the most famous representatives of the Korean modern art scene, Professor of Painting at Hongik University and owner of Gallery Ho.
Written by Susanne Dauer, Art Historian
