Kim Tschang-Yeul was born in 1929 in South Korea, and after having lived and worked in Paris for a while, he lives again in South Korea. Considered as a major artist in Korea, we call him ?Master? in his homeland.
His particularity is to paint a recurrent formal pattern: the water drop realised in trompe-l?oeil style. The water drop is like a mania, a leitmotif, a recurrence. The painter gives us the visual key for the recognition of his artworks. He mixes, since the early 80s, calligraphy and water drops which bring a new depth in his painting, and a new meaning.
Already exhibited in France at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in 2004, Kim Tschang-Yeul continues to be exhibited in the entire world.
We can perceive the universe of Kim Tschang Yeul as something playful, serious, sad, joyful, colourful, pictorial, ideal, real, invented. The exhibition is concentrated on his artworks on paper: water is here, on and in the paper, oil enters the fibers, embossing needs moisture in order to exist. These drops are sometimes alone, sometimes swarms, crowd or colonies. His work on drops is also close to the words: The bubbles of Rabelais enclose the words; those of Kim interact with them, unless they simply fight.
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