김용익, 런던 주영한국문화원 및 브리스톨 스파이크 아일랜드에서 개인전 개최 | KUKJE GALLERY
김용익, 런던 주영한국문화원 및 브리스톨 스파이크 아일랜드에서 개인전 개최
Kim Yong-Ik, Installation view, I believe my works are still valid, Spike Island (2017) Courtesy the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photography by Stuart Whipps.
전시제목: 《I Believe My Works Are Still Valid(나는 아직 나의 작품을 유효하다고 믿는다)》
전시장소: 런던 주영한국문화원 (Korean Cultural Centre, London)
전시기간: 2017년 9월 26일 – 11월 4일 (오프닝 9월 25일)
웹사이트: http://london.korean-culture.org/ko/22/board/1/read/85839
전시장소: 브리스톨 스파이크 아일랜드 (Spike Island, Bristol)
전시기간: 2017년 9월 30일 – 12월 17일 (오프닝 9월 29일)
웹사이트: http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
아티스트 토크: 김용익, 양혜규 대담
행사연사: 김용익, 양혜규, 헬렌 레그 (Helen Legg)
행사일정: 2017년 10월 3일 (화) 5시
행사장소: 런던 주영한국문화원 (Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand Buildings, 1 - 3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW)
국제갤러리의 김용익은 영국 런던의 주영한국문화원과 브리스톨의 스파이크 아일랜드에서 유럽에서의 첫 개인전을 개최한다. 본 전시는 주영한국문화원이 2014년부터 한국 중견 작가를 지원하기 위해 개최해 온 ‘올해의 작가’ 전의 일환으로, 올해는 ‘2017-18 한영 상호교류의 해’를 맞이하여 실험적인 현대미술을 소개하는 기관으로 인지도 있는 미술기관인 스파이크 아일랜드와 공동으로 마련되었다. 주영한국문화원은 2017 올해의 작가’로 1970년대의 모더니즘부터 80, 90년대의 개념미술, 민중미술, 공공미술 등 한국 미술의 주요 흐름을 거쳐오는 가운데 독자적인 위치를 고수해 온 김용익을 선정하였다. 9월 26일부터 11월 4일까지 주영한국문화원에서는 전시 공간을 캔버스로 상정하여 구상한 김용익의 새로운 장소 특정적 설치작품을 선보인다. 이어 9월 30일부터 열리는 스파이크 아일랜드의 전시에서는 김용익이 1970년대부터 현재까지 전개해 온 회화, 드로잉, 설치 작품들을 회고전의 형식으로 보여줄 예정이다. 10월 3일에는 주영한국문화원에서 김용익과 양혜규의 대담이 개최되어 김용익이 다음 세대의 현대미술작가들에게 끼친 영향에 대해 이야기를 나눈다.
Kim Yong-Ik is featured in his first solo exhibition in Europe jointly presented by Spike Island in Bristol and the Korean Cultural Centre UK in London. The show is the 4th edition of the KCCUK’s ‘Artist of the Year’ exhibition, which was established in 2014 to highlight the practice of seminal artists of Korean contemporary art. As part of the ‘UK/Korea 2017–18’ season, this year’s iteration is co-organized with Spike Island, a prominent arts institution that introduces experimental contemporary art. The KCCUK has selected Kim Yong-Ik as the ‘2017 Artist of the Year,’ celebrating the artist’s pioneering oeuvre that has evolved alongside, while maintaining an individual stance amidst, the major currents of Korean art history, including the Dansaekhwa generation of the 1970s and conceptual art, Minjung art, and public art of the 1980s and 1990s. From September 26 to November 4, 2017, the KCCUK presents new site-specific installations that envisage the exhibition space as a canvas in and of itself. The counterpart exhibition at Spike Island, open from September 30, surveys a selection of drawings, paintings and installations from the 1970s onwards in the form of retrospective. A discussion between Kim Yong-Ik and Haegue Yang will take place on October 3 at the KCCUK on Kim’s legacy and its impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists.
Kim Yong-Ik is featured in his first solo exhibition in Europe jointly presented by Spike Island in Bristol and the Korean Cultural Centre UK in London. The show is the 4th edition of the KCCUK’s ‘Artist of the Year’ exhibition, which was established in 2014 to highlight the practice of seminal artists of Korean contemporary art. As part of the ‘UK/Korea 2017–18’ season, this year’s iteration is co-organized with Spike Island, a prominent arts institution that introduces experimental contemporary art. The KCCUK has selected Kim Yong-Ik as the ‘2017 Artist of the Year,’ celebrating the artist’s pioneering oeuvre that has evolved alongside, while maintaining an individual stance amidst, the major currents of Korean art history, including the Dansaekhwa generation of the 1970s and conceptual art, Minjung art, and public art of the 1980s and 1990s. From September 26 to November 4, 2017, the KCCUK presents new site-specific installations that envisage the exhibition space as a canvas in and of itself. The counterpart exhibition at Spike Island, open from September 30, surveys a selection of drawings, paintings and installations from the 1970s onwards in the form of retrospective. A discussion between Kim Yong-Ik and Haegue Yang will take place on October 3 at the KCCUK on Kim’s legacy and its impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists.
[Source from KCCUK press release]