KIM Soun-Gui
One Stroke of Painting, 1975-1985
2-channel video, color, sound
03'30"
Edition of 3
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Kim Soungui’s “One Stroke of Painting” is a two channel video work produced while filming her practice of Korean traditional archery, “Kuk-goong”. As one of Kim’s major series, “Painting of...
Kim Soungui’s “One Stroke of Painting” is a two channel video work produced while filming her practice of Korean traditional archery, “Kuk-goong”. As one of Kim’s major series, “Painting of One Brush of Stroke (Il-Hua)”, are created during her early years working in France. A shot of arrow signifies ‘one brush of a stroke (il-pil),’ leading a chaos to an infinitely open attitude, the creative impulses freely crossing the boundary between the East and West. As one of the pioneers in Korean experimental art, she has been fluently crossing over diverse genres, including painting, photography, performance and video. For Kim, blurring boundaries between Eastern and Western philosophies are portrayed in her “one brush of stroke”. According to the artist, it symbolizes “the beginning, the basis of everything. It has the meaning of ‘chaos,’ meaning an infinitely open attitude.” Through this we may catch a glimpse of Kim’s way of thinking in seeking an infinite openness beyond boundary, limit and prejudice. A single shot of an arrow, a single stroke of a brush is the essence of the world and art as a whole.
Soun-Gui Kim (b.1946) is a multimedia artist, one of the pioneers in multidisciplinary art. She has been living and working in France since 1971, actively teaching, creating, and establishing her career for the last 50 years. She recently held a large-scale retrospective exhibition, "Lazy Clouds" at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea in 2019 and, in 2021, is scheduled to hold a solo show at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany and participate at the group exhibition at Mori Museum of Art curated by Mami Kataoka.
Kim, during the 1970s, actively exchanged influences with experimental artists during the time, including John Cage and Namjune Paik. In today’s terms she was a pioneer of interdisciplinary art and performance, in which various art disciplines converge; and this led her to pursue ephemerality in performance such as those of the Fluxus movement. Her experimentation with photography is another critical example of Kim's interest in various medium. It can be highlighted with the art festival organized by Kim. In 1986, Kim invited her friends to participate in an art festival she organized. Under the title “Video and Multimedia: Soun-Gui Kim and Her Invitees, Kim invited her artist colleagues from various countries—including John Cage, Namjune Paik, Daniel Charles, Ko Nakajima, Ira Schneider, Davison Gigliotti—to take part in performances, exhibitions, poetry readings, discussions and gatherings.
Soun-Gui Kim (b.1946) is a multimedia artist, one of the pioneers in multidisciplinary art. She has been living and working in France since 1971, actively teaching, creating, and establishing her career for the last 50 years. She recently held a large-scale retrospective exhibition, "Lazy Clouds" at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea in 2019 and, in 2021, is scheduled to hold a solo show at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany and participate at the group exhibition at Mori Museum of Art curated by Mami Kataoka.
Kim, during the 1970s, actively exchanged influences with experimental artists during the time, including John Cage and Namjune Paik. In today’s terms she was a pioneer of interdisciplinary art and performance, in which various art disciplines converge; and this led her to pursue ephemerality in performance such as those of the Fluxus movement. Her experimentation with photography is another critical example of Kim's interest in various medium. It can be highlighted with the art festival organized by Kim. In 1986, Kim invited her friends to participate in an art festival she organized. Under the title “Video and Multimedia: Soun-Gui Kim and Her Invitees, Kim invited her artist colleagues from various countries—including John Cage, Namjune Paik, Daniel Charles, Ko Nakajima, Ira Schneider, Davison Gigliotti—to take part in performances, exhibitions, poetry readings, discussions and gatherings.