This minimalist artwork features a composition of simple geometric shapes and muted colors. The predominant elements are rectangular forms in shades of beige and black, arranged in a balanced, asymmetrical layout across the white background. The artist employs a restrained, pared-down aesthetic, highlighting the interplay of positive and negative space. This work exemplifies the Minimalist artistic style, which emphasizes fundamental visual components and rejects elaborate ornamentation, inviting the viewer to contemplate the essential qualities of form and color. ...
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.” ...
