curated by Gianluca Ranzi
MACRO Testaccio
Promoted by Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Roma Capitale, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, Camera di Commercio di Roma
Supported by Zètema Progetto Cultura
Partners of Biennale Vie della Seta: Banche tesoriere di Roma Capitale: BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas, Unicredit, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena; eni; Finmeccanica; Fondazione Roma Arte-Musei
Organized by Ambasciata della Repubblica di Korea
In collaboration with Flammini Group
The work of the Korean artist Minjung Kim is a projection of the imaginary and the imagination. The encounter between East and West in the Minjung Kim's work is played on contamination, exchange, stratification, a "breakthrough" of signs and spots. Signs and spots that go beyond representation and give way to the vitality of the gesture. These are not landscapes, portraits or other items, but paper-ink-brush-combustion assembled all together.
Minjung Kim Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju in the Republic of Korea in 1962. Her exploration of the interrelationship between Oriental and Western techniques and conceptions continues outside the Academy. In her pictorial work - which she always executes on the floor in keeping with Oriental tradition, because both literally and metaphorically the floor is the basic support for all painting - Minjung tends to use increasingly concentrated watercolours in order to express effectively the intensity the colours contain. Furthermore, in her works made during 1998 on overlaid layers of paper, she buned sections of them to generate an effect of three-dimensionality, to provide the viewer with a chronological dimension, and to indicate layers of time symbolised by the layers of paper.
Minjung currently lives and works in Italy, France and United States.
The exhibition is part of the Silk Road International Cultural Biennale, a series of eleven exhibitions ranging from history to archeology, from contemporary art to current events, with a rich calendar of conferences and events.