This abstract artwork features a muted color palette dominated by shades of gray, white, and blue. The composition consists of a series of organic, amorphous shapes and splotches that create a sense of movement and fluidity across the canvas. The overall impression is one of a dreamlike, atmospheric landscape, with the scattered circular forms evoking a rainy or foggy ambiance. The artist's technique blends layers of paint to produce a hazy, ethereal quality, hinting at a contemplative or melancholic mood. This piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of the relationship between the natural world and the subconscious mind. ...
Influenced by Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome painting, and the Japanese Mono-ha movement, Kim Yong-Ik established his career in the late 1970s with his Plane Object paintings, a series of airbrush paintings on unstretched canvases that relate to these traditions. In the 1980s, having completed a thesis on Marcel Duchamp, Kim moved from the ‘Plane Object’ series to more abstract and geometric languages. During the 1980s and 1990s, he developed increasingly experimental work by using scraps and thus including forces greater than his own imprint, such as stains, hair or dust. By the early 1990s, Kim develops his “polka dot” series consisting of paintings depicting simple and serialized arrangements of circles.
In 1999, Kim helped establish one of Korea’s leading exhibition spaces known as “art space pool.” ...
