Exhibition Information

Internal L. Universe Series 47
2019 Acrylic on Canvas 162cm x 130cm

Internal L. Universe Series 51
2019 Acrylic on canvas 162cm x 130cm

Internal L. Universe Series 52
2019 Acrylic on canvas 116.8x91cm

Internal L. Universe Series 55
2019 Acrylic on canvas 162cm x 130cm

			The Youngeun Art Museum will hold an exhibition of Kim Ki-Sub from its creative studio, "The Cosmic Verses" from Dec 21 to Jan 22, 2020, as part of the Youngeun Artist Project.

He draws pictures based on nature, which is common to anyone. He expressed his own inner self in abstract terms with nature, which provides infinite inspiration as a material for drawing. This time, he presents expanded works with the concept that the nature of the human inner is the individual universe.

“... what I learned from expressing the abstract natural world inside of us is that there is something much bigger than the natural world inside of us. I saw this by space; In other words, we all have our own worlds inside. Each of these universes has different shapes and colors depending on its own values and worldviews. My universe, Internal L. Universe, which borders the natural world inside of me, is my space series expressed on the basis of a new form of abstract nature that accepts real natural colors internally and is recombined in my own colors and forms.” <From author note>

The Internal L. Universe series, which began this way, is an expression of what we each have in our hearts into space. If the form that left something to be imagined existed on the screen in the previous series(Internal Landscape), on the other hand, in this exhibition where nature has expanded into space and it is an abstract painting in which the conceptual form, like the air that is not actually visible but clearly exists, is completely excluded.

He uses only acrylic paints and water as a tool for painting. Work only with canvas, paint and water, and do not use any medium. So, in the work, he is more sensitive to the specific material, water. The order of work first fills the canvas with sense of dividing areas with some individual colors. Then spray water with mixed paint. He explains that for this spraying process, he goes through all the previous drawing processes. What is important in this “spray“ is the ratio of water to paint. On the canvas, various sizes and shapes of water droplets are seen, as if they were shaped by a brush, depending on the ratio of paint to water. These completed droplets reveal their individuality, as the water droplets that existed in the actual air, rather than simply drawing them out, meet the actual space called canvas and explode at the same time.

This kind of sprinkling technique is a method that can only be seen in this series. This is a methodology that comes out of the inner landscape of the Inner Landscape series, which seeks to go further from the visible nature and express the universe, a wider and unknown world. When he was a student studying painting for the first time, consoled by nature, looked at the nature and drew it and he naturally moved on to the abstract with the will to express the nature of each and every human being has, and added a new methodology to express the universe that exists in the human mind.

We exist in nature and live together, but we have our own universe in our hearts. It also expands as experience and thought build up in life. Like our world expanding, hope us to be curious of his next works.