This minimalist artwork showcases a clean, geometric composition of rectangular shapes in muted tones of beige and blue. The overall layout is balanced, with the shapes arranged in a symmetrical pattern across the canvas. The artist has skillfully employed a reductive approach, using simple forms and a limited color palette to create a sense of calm and tranquility. This piece reflects the principles of Minimalist art, prioritizing an exploration of space, proportion, and the inherent qualities of the materials over narrative or representational elements. The artist's intention may be to prompt the viewer to engage with the work through a meditative contemplation of its formal qualities. ...
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.” ...
