Unlike for Yves Klein, the colour blue was a hue that meant home to the pioneering Korean painter Kim Whan-gi who moved to Paris in the 1950’s and became the father of the Korean abstract art movement. Its purity, transparency and tranquillity reflect the virtue of Korean traditions that played a significant role in shaping Korean modernity and art. The nostalgic hue continues to inspire Korean artists of today. This exhibition will present new works demonstrating how contemporary artists are making, working with, and feeling ‘Blue’.
Exhibition:
This exhibition has already taken place
Exploring blue as a colour of Korean art. This exhibition coincides with the V&A’s Korean exhibition ‘K-Wave’ and Asian Art in London.
This Cromwell Place exhibition has already taken place
(The) sky in my country Korea is intense blue, and our east sea is so clear and pure that it would dye a white cloth into blue
Kim Whan-gi
Artist
About the Hosts
Lloyd Choi Gallery
Lloyd Choi Gallery represents craftsmanship-led contemporary Korean artists and designers. The gallery believes in the power of art to enlighten, a concept rooted firmly in Korean tradition. The thorough knowledge of materials, the masterful skill and meditative processes create an alchemic reaction that moves beyond the boundaries of craft, design and fine art. Specialising in Korean contemporary studio ceramics, the gallery promotes artists whose contemporary works echo the traditional values best described by Bernard Leach, in his ‘A Potter’s Book’, “nobility, austerity, strength, breath, subtlety, warmth qualities which apply equally to our judgments of human and ceramic values.”
