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KIM Choon Jae
 キム・チュンジェ / 김춘재

東洋画科を卒業したキム・チュンジェは油絵という西洋的な媒体を使って制作する。東洋画で主に使用される構図と技法を西洋の材料を使うことによって、東洋と西洋の独特なコンビネーションが作家独自の造形言語を創出する。東洋画で、画には精神が宿っていると言われる。キム・チュンジェのいくつもの画と筆遣いが重なり作られた画面は、作家の苦労と成果がそのまま現れている。

2021年から始まった <Tiny wood> シリーズの作品は、闇と光のコンビネーションあるいは対比が強く現れている。キム・チュンジェの風景は暗い。だが、その闇は断面的な闇だとは言えない。東洋哲学において、余白は込めている内容を表現する為の一つの方法だ。作家は「黒い余白」を通して風景の中に隠されているものを私たちに見せようとする。闇を通して風景は強調されたり、全ての話を中断したりもする。沈黙は一つの答えになり、その沈黙は現代社会を生きている作家の複雑な感情と現実に対する思索を込めたものだ。

キム・チュンジェは、風景が、ある特定の場所を指すものではないと話す。だからと言って、観念や想像の中の風景でもない。「実在」と「象徴」の正反対の点を上手く調和させたものだ。このような作家の風景は新しい造形世界を構築する。すなわち、現実が自然を通して内面化された人生の風景であるということだ。美しい風景を通して本人の内面の平和を込めており、又、彼の風景は私たちの記憶の中の風景と絡みあってキャンバスの外に広がっていく。それゆえキム・チュンジェの作品は、重く閉ざされた空間ではなく、躍動感のある開かれた空間になっている。


 

Why are Choonjae Kim’s landscapes more special and unique? He graduated from Hongik University Department of Oriental Painting and works with a Western medium, oil painting. He combines Western materials with compositions and techniques commonly used in Oriental painting. This unique combination of East and West generates his own formative language. In oriental paintings, strokes are said to contain spirit. The landscapes created by the artist’s brush strokes clearly reveal his hard work and efforts.

The works in his <Tiny wood> series, which began in 2021, show a strong combination of or contrast between darkness and light. While Choonjae Kim’s landscapes are dark, such darkness cannot be simply seen as one-sided darkness. In Eastern philosophy, blank space is another way to express the content. The artist wishes to show us what is hidden in the landscape through “black space.” Darkness emphasizes the scenery and even interrupts the entire story of the work. Silence can be an answer, and that silence embodies the artist’s complex emotions and contemplation of reality in the midst of the life in modern society.

Choonjae Kim says that landscape does not refer to a specific place. However, it is not a landscape of ideas or imagination, either. It is a result of the skillfully harmonized opposites of “reality” and “symbol.” The landscapes created by the artist generate a new formative world. In other words, reality is a landscape of life internalized through nature. He captures his inner peace through beautiful landscapes, and his landscapes are intertwined with the landscapes in our memories and expand beyond the canvas. Therefore, Choonjae Kim’s works are lively open spaces, rather than heavy, closed spaces.

Tiny wood40.9x53cm, Oil on canvas, 2025

Tiny wood40.9x53cm, Oil on canvas , 2025

Tiny wood40.9x53cm, Oil on canvas , 2025

Tiny wood40.9x53cm, Oil on canvas , 2025

Tiny wood53x72.7cm, Oil on canvas , 2024


  

Education


B.A. in Hongik university in Seoul

M.A. in Hongik university in Seoul


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Solo Exhibitions


2024    Chapter7. Depth of Abyss (Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, Korea)

2023    Small chapter - Light of Manifestation (Gallery Kki, Seoul, Korea)

2022    Decade - Warm lies than cruel truth (gallery Geoje, Goeje, Korea)

2021     Chapter6. Tiny wood (Space UM, Seoul, Korea)

2018     Chapter5. Brilliant dark (Gallery Seorein space, Busan, Korea)

2014     Chapter4. Endless (Artspace H, Seoul, Korea)

2013     Chapter3. Day and Night (Gallery Hyundai Window, Seoul, Korea)

2011      Chapter2. Will of Gaia (Space Sun+, Seoul, Korea)

2010     Chapter1. The other's City (Gyoha Art Center, Paju, Korea)


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Group Exhibitions


2024    All about paintings in the world (Artertain, Seoul, Korea)

2023    Until the day we meet again (Parnas hotel, Jeju, Korea)

             Fall in love with painting (Shinsegae Art&Sience, Daejeon, Korea)

2022    All about drawings in the world (Artertain, Seoul, Korea)

2021     Story Painter (Ecorock gallery, Goyang, Korea)

             Seoul-ro Media canvas-moving image (Seoul-ro7017, Seoul, Korea)

             the Shift-crack and budding (Gallery Pakyoung, Paju, Korea)

2020    AVS-Catastrophic sensation (Kimheesoo art center, Seoul, Korea)

             Moon for everyone (SeMA storage, Seoul, Korea)

             Comforting Scenery (Gallery Insa art, Seoul, Korea)

2019     Night that light stay (Shinsegae gallery, Gwangju, Korea)

             X square of 3 is infinity (Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea)

             World in 1cm, Scape in 1m (Pale de Seoul, Seoul, Korea)

2018     memento Bukjeong ballad for oblivion (Seongbukdowon, Seoul, Korea)

             Art spectrum (Third place, Seoul, Korea)

             Memorial Day and night (Seongbukdowon, Seoul, Korea)

2017     Walk in Seongnam (Seongnam Cube museum, Seongnam, Korea)

             Gyeonggi art prism (Gyeonggi-do museum, Ansan, Korea)

             Jeju biennale - tourism (artspace Iaa, Jeju, Korea)

             Landscape of O (Seongbukdowon, Seoul, Korea)

             Platform artist (Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea)

2016     the Great Artist (Posco museum, Seoul, Korea)

             Wet paint (Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea)

2015     Mukseon (Artspace H, Seoul, Korea)

             Things standing between (Space Sun+, Seoul, Korea)

2014     Old &New (Onyang Folk Museum, Onyang, Korea)

             Situation (AMADO arts center, Seoul, Korea)

2013     Korea tomorrow (Seoul arts center, Seoul, Korea)

             Neo inscription (Artspace H, Seoul, Korea)

2012     Joongang Finearts Prize (Seoul arts center, Seoul, Korea)

2011      Talking to the world (Keumsan gallery, Paju, Korea)

             Dongbangyogoi-in the city (Chungmu art hall, Seoul, Korea)




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Awards


2021     Gallery Bakyoung 'the Shift" 6th artist (Gallery Bakyoung, Korea)

2020    Young artist awards (Namdo Cultural Foundation, Korea)

2016     Incheon Art Platform (Incheon-si, Korea)

2012     Joongang Finearts Prize (JoongAng Ilbo Co., Korea)


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Permanent Collections


Artbank of MMCA

Artbank of Goverment

Posco museum

Gyeonggi-do museum

Seongnam Cultural Foundation

Seongnam Cube museum

Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture





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