Kim Soonok

Waterfall Painter _ Kim, Soonok
Representative of Korea Institute of Art Promotion & Huam Gallery Owner

Her painting by give shape to such a huge flow of the waterfall falling down with reverberating earth and sky in a huge sound of explosion, makes us entangled by the feeling to face the prodigious power of Mother Nature just like being before our very eyes. this is a product of intuition which can interpret the substance of Mother Nature as well as image's clarity which have been built up through the long time of observation. Her sense of beauty which enables the vitality of enormous Mother Nature to be condensed on canvas, and it leads to a product in the true meaning of passion, by surpassing her skills of hands. Her painting is just more than a simple visual impression. By compressing the surging of the magnificent nature on a very small screen in a very convincing way, she makes the border of painting and reality vague. This is a result of the expressiveness of high density as well as reality which is very close to object's substance. Concrete description or straight-forward expression only to the substance, its appeal is so strong. Her painting deludes us a pretense that we are standing in front of that waterfall, and it...

1998.03.02~2001.02.14 Bachelor of Art, Norte University, Paraguay.
'Doctoral Thesis' A study on Characteristic of Colour and its Utilization: Universidad del Norte, Paraguay.

Books
2012 'Color Marketing' Aesthetics in Colors, the film Old Boy(Co-Author): jigu Publishing

2013 : Solo Exhibition at Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas
2013 : Solo exhibition at the Consulate General of Los Angeles
2012: Invited Solo Exhibition at Core Art Gallery, University of Hawaii
2011: Solo exhibition at Kast City Museum of Art, Germany
2011 : Invitational Exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden (Gotgatan Exhibition Hall)
2011 : French Art Collection (Ambassadeur Art Salon)
2007: Malaysia International Art Expo
2004: Manif International Art Fair
2004: Solo Exhibition of Asian Art and Culture Exchange in Japan (Huam Gallery)
2003 : Meeting of Korean and Chinese Contemporary Art (Weihai Museum, China)
2001: Exhibition hall of the Dutch Ministry of Economy
2000 : Solo exhibition at Everats Gallery in Paris, France
2000: Solo exhibition at Beama Gallery, Okaima, Japan
1997 : Invitational solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Argentina
1997 : China International Art Exchange Exhibition (Yanbian Museum)
1996 : Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Beijing, China (Museum of Jilin Province, China)
1996 : Paraguay National Art Museum Solo Exhibition
1995 : Invitational solo exhibition at Bridgeport University, New York