HYUN AE KANG "Peace in Chaos. A look into Contemporary Korean Art"

Hyun Ae Kang is an important Korean Artist, whose ability to combine traditional cultural influence with her own unique technique and contemporary vision resulted into a remarkable collection.

She often utilizes vibrant colors with layers of carefully applied paint to create works which ultimately serve as reflection of her deeply personal and spiritual meditations.

Snow 8-2, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 in; 76 × 101 × 5 cm

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER, DEC 22 – MAR 18, 2019 (ANAHEIN, USA) 2018 BOCCARA ART BROOKLYN GALLERY, DEC 1, 2018 – JAN 1, 2019 2017 YACHT CLUB DE MONACO, BOCCARA ART, NOV 16 DEC 31 (MONACO) 2017 CENTER GALLERY, AUG 28 OCT 23 (ANAHEIM, USA) 2016 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2015 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2014 MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) 2002 GALLERY 3 (FULLERTON, USA) 2002 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT ELIZABETH EDWARDS FINE ART AND BONNIE BOISITS (PALM DESERT, USA) 2001 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT ELIZABETH EDWARDS FINE ART (LAGUNA BEACH, USA) 1998 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT CERRITOS LIBRARY (CERRITOS, USA) 1991 SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AT HYUNDAI GALLERY (SEOUL, KOREA)

Snow 5-5, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 2/5 in; 76 × 101 × 6 cm

Gleam 2-1, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 20 1/10 × 59 4/5 × 2 in; 51 × 152 × 5 cm

Sunrise, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 29 9/10 × 39 4/5 × 2 in; 76 × 101 × 5 cm

Gleam 2-2, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 20 1/10 × 59 4/5 × 2 in; 51 × 152 × 5 cm

Why South Korea’s monochrome painting movement is the art world’s latest obsession.

Think of South Korea today – K-pop, karaoke and plastic surgery will surely come to mind, followed by images of Seoul’s cutting-edge districts, where the latest trends in food, fashion and art are being cooked up and served to a public hungry for the new.

It’s almost hard to imagine that 40 years earlier, the avant-garde was embodied by a loose group of artists, among them Lee Ufan, Park Seo-Bo, Chung Chang-Sup and Kim Whan-ki, whose meditative monochrome paintings were inspired by processes, materials and nature.

And perhaps even harder to understand why they have recently emerged as some of the hottest and most desirable names on the art market. Now referred to as part of the Dansaekhwa movement (literally translated as “monochrome painting”), these painters have created something of a storm in the art world in the space of only 2,5 years.

It all started with a book. In 2013, Joan Kee, associate professor of history of art at the University of Michigan, introduced Dansaekhwa to the West with Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method, the first publication on the topic written in English. Shortly thereafter, in late 2014, three major shows with Dansaekhwa artists opened in Seoul, Paris and Los Angeles, at most important galleries.

World-renowned museums like New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Paris’s Centre Pompidou and Hong Kong’s very own M+ soon began to acquire works for their permanent collections, further cementing the group’s already strong global presence.

Similar to the Gutai movement in Japan, Dansaekhwa rose to attention due to a desire to explore significant movements, which were previously overlooked in the grand, usually Western, art historical narrative.

Despite their often-mentioned resemblance to American abstraction of the same period, these works are profoundly Korean. “ THEY ARE ORIGINAL MODES OF EXPRESSION DISCOVERED AUTONOMOUSLY BY A POSTWAR GENERATION OF ARTISTS WHO GREW UP EXPERIENCING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP WITHOUT THE PRIVILEGE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. ” (HYUN-SOOK LEE)

In their own way, these artists looked to nature as a reaction to their disappointment in, or perhaps disillusionment with, humanity under such political conditions. Materials were central to their works and it is their raw, earthly qualities that these artists extracted and highlighted in a simple and restrained aesthetic. Chung used traditional Korean paper Hanji instead of canvas, while Ha Chong-Hyun worked with coarse, plain-woven hemp on the back of which he applied a thick layer of paint that he then pushed through the holes. Park scribbled with a pencil on freshly-painted canvases and Lee painted lines down canvases until his brush ran dry.

Sotheby’s, leveraging Korea’s incredibly popular music industry, invited K-pop icon and avid collector T.O.P to curate #TTTOP, an evening sale of Western and Asian contemporary art.

Phillips Asia also offeres works by Korean artists, after witnessing strong demand by both established and emerging collectors in its New York and London sales.

If the last four years have seen Korean artists showcased outside their home country, recent developments suggest that galleries are looking to make their way in to build strong relationships with local collectors. Taking the lead was Galerie Perrotin which opened a space in Seoul on the ground floor of the building that also houses Christie’s’ decade-old outpost. Adding that South Korea in fact counts the world’s greatest number of private art museums. Following this lead, fellow blue chip dealer Pace Gallery, already present across the United States, Europe and Asia, announced its plan to expand by opening an office in the capital. (Article by Margot Mottaz ) New South Kerean artists to look out for Our experts tell us which contemporary Korean artists they believe will be the next big thing, following in the footsteps of the Dansaekhwa painters who have paved the way to international opportunities and recognition.

There is certainly a selection of up-and-coming Korean artists who are starting to receive recognition on the world stage, and we would like to point to Hyun Ae Kang, who is arguably one of the most noteworthy contemporary Korean artists.

Hyun Ae Kang (born in South Korea. Currently based in California, USA) is an important figure in Korean contemporary art. In her art Hyun combines traditional Korean

spirit

and

Western

abstraction,

using

preliminary

natural

materials, mostly wood, to create her innovative, rich in colors and texture mixed-media works.

Her art reveals the wonder and the sublime residing wishing nature, her inner desire to share her journey of faith, reflecting her longing to have her life shaped by the presence of the Divine. Her works are thus a quite and deeply personalized meditation on her relationship as an Artist with an Almighty Redeemer.

Since 1993 Hyun Ae Kang was collected by two museums: The Art Museum of Seoul and Brea Museum & Historical Society.

High Noon 2, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 35 4/5 × 35 4/5 × 2 in; 91 × 91 × 5 cm

High Noon 2, 2017 Mixed-media on wood 35 4/5 × 35 4/5 × 2 in; 91 × 91 × 5 cm

Forest 2-5, 2018 Mixed-media on wood 24 × 29 9/10 × 2 in; 61 × 76 × 5 cm

Forest, 2015 Mixed media on wood 24 × 24 × 4 in; 61 × 61 × 10.2 cm

Window to Heaven, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm

Window to Heaven, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm

Window to Heaven, 2017 Mixed media 24 × 20 in; 61 × 50.8 cm

Cosmos 5-2, 2017 Bronze, prite and amethyst 5 × 14 × 2 1/2 in; 12.7 × 35.6 × 5.1 cm

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1991-2016: 2016 2016 2015 2013 2002 1995 1993 1992 1992 1991

AHAF ART SHOW (SEOUL, KOREA) ASIA CONTEMPORARY SHOW (HONG KONG, HONG KONG) CROPS OF LOVE ART EXHIBITION (SEOUL, KOREA) MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (ANAHEIM, USA) PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR (PALM SPRINGS, USA) GROUP EXHIBITION (THE ART MUZEUM OF SEOUL) KOREA FINE ART GRAND EXHIBITION (SEOUL, KOREA) EXHIBITION OF MODERN KOREAN SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OF KOREAN FINE ART TODAY EXHIBITION OF KOREAN FINE ART ASSOCIATION

SELECTED COLLECTIONS: SINCE 1993 SCULPTURE TOGETHER AT THE ART MUSEUM OF SEOUL SINCE 2015 SCULPTURE REBIRTH AT MUZEO ART MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER SINCE 2016 SCULPTURE THE BREA HILLS AT BREA MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Cosmos, 2017 Bronze and pyrite 7 1/10 × 9 2/5 × 9 2/5 in; 18 × 24 × 24 cm

MOST RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016-2018: 2018 . AFAF 2018 (Fukuoka, Japan) 2018 . ART SHANGHAI2018 (Shanghai, China) 2018 . ART MIAMI 2018 (Miami, USA) 2018 . ART SANTA FE (Santa Fe, USA) 2018 . AFFORDABLE ART FAIR (Hong Kong) 2018 . ART NEW YORK (USA) 2018 . ART PALM BEACH 2018 (Florida, USA) 2017, 2018 SCOPE Miami (USA) 2017 . AUCTION AT BOWERS MUSEUM (Santa Ana, USA) 2017 . MADE IN CALIFORNIA AT BREA GALLERY (Brea,USA) 2016, 2017, 2018 ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, HONG KONG

SELECTED COLLECTION SINCE 2018 .

CALIFORNIA SINCE 2018 .

SINCE 2016 .

SINCE 1993 .

PAINTING THE CROSS IN MY HEART AT SARANG COMMUNITY CHURCH OF SOUTHERN PAINTINH NOAH'S ARK AT BUEJON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN BUSAN SCULPTURE THE BREA HILLS AT BREA MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY SCULPTURE TOGETHER AT THE ART MUSEUM OF SEOUL

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