Kim Man Su

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Kim Mansu & Rosalie Fabre in Conversation

RF: Rosalie Fabre

Kim: Kim Mansu

RF: Your paintings appear to me like amalgams of vivid memories. It is almost as if you rendered the past alive again, throu your own reinterpretation of art historical references. What importance do your personal as well as national histories play in your
paintings?

KIM: I’'ve lived as an artist for 40 years with so many artistic thoughts and struggles in mind. It’'s been about 25 years since I decided not to pursue paintings derived from Western culture. only about 30 years ago, Korea was still an unrecognized country in the world. During that time (I guess many other artists may have once been concerned with a similar issue), art in Korea or Korean art was a total stranger to people in the international art scene. And that made me consider an artistic path that dug more into traditional values of Korean art while balancing out a sense of contemporary art in the world. That’'s the main reason I quit western oil painting 25 years ago. After I changed my direction toward more traditional methods of landscape painting, I happened to participate in a group exhibition held at the gallery space in Hyundai Department Store,...

1971-74 Recognition: Study from Professor Song Hye-soo (Tokyo Imperial College of Art, first generation of Western painting in Korea)

Solo Exhibition
2010 Chelsea West Gallery (New York)
2007 Seoul Fine Art Show (Seoul Arts Center)
2006 Insadong Traditional Culture Festival (Insa Art Center)
2005 Galerie kim Schnrider (Munich,
Germany) Gallery R (Jeju)
2004 L.A Immigration Historical Memorial Hall (L.A) Suho Museum of Art
2002 Insa Art Center (Seoul)
1994 Galerie Etienne Causans (Paris)
1992 Gallery Doin (Seoul)
1991 EURO Gallery (Seoul)
1989 Central Gallery (Daegu)
1988 Museum of Modern Art, Seoul (HyundaiDepartment Store, Seoul)
1987 Gyeongin Museum of Art (Seoul)
1986 Haein Gallery (Busan)
1983 Ma Gallery (Busan)
1979 Y-House (Suwon)

Group Exhibition
2014 Seogwipo Art Hall Opening Invitation Exhibition (Jeju)
2013 Seoul Art Show (SETEC)
2012 ART ASIA (COEX) Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair (Chosun Hotel, Seoul / Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong)
2010 Miami Art Fair (Miami) Singapore Art Fair (Singapore) Hampton Art Fair (New York) KIAF (COEX) Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair (Shilla Hotel)
Art Chicago (Chicago) Maekyung The Power and Beauty of Korean Art (COEX)
2009 KIAF (COEX, Ye Sung Gallery) The light of Jeju (Seoul Arts Center) SOAP (COEX)
2008 SOAP (COEX) 2007 SOAP (COEX)
2006 Gallery R, ​​Jeju
2005 ARCO Art Fair (Spain) Zurich Art F...