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MANHEE KIM
Manhee Kim’s gestural abstraction is not doctrinaire in the sense of 20th Century work but rather is attuned to his time yet is not based on any particular manifesto.
In this new abstraction, there is a purposeful movement that is almost aggressive yet controlled, that subverts claims of perfection. It is about incompletion, gestural antithesis, and a tendency towards an unfinished quality analogous to the Japanese idea of Wabi-Sabi, the appreciation of imperfection. In Korean it is almost synonymous to the concept of Han that is like the mystery of the soul or a feeling of angst and yearning that developed over hundreds of years of shared cultural development.
In Kim’s work like the White on Black, these qualities appear in his flying white brushstrokes that contain as much void space as solid. This subversion of closure allows Kim to address issues in his own roots while being currently viable in denying dogmatic history. But, even in this departure, Kim is not being cavalier, but rather playfully unpredictable and informal.
Kim’s approach to his work is very serious however, although there is an intuitive element present. Kim works with different size scales without confining his smaller works to the genre of studies, but rather giving them their due democratically speaking. Kim’s works are not meant to produce calm resolution but rather agitation and excitement addressing the multivalent and tumultuous world in which we reside. - Thalia Vrachopoulos Ph. D
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ManHee Kim paints with the high energy of the great Abstract Expressionists. While the abstract paintings of Kim Man Hee are filled with broad sweeps of pigment and embodied gestural nuances, they also hold memories of time and place. The viewer will see the direct use of primary color in Kim’s work – the reds, blacks, blues, and violets – as carriers of vivid emotion. They suggest the sound of wind blowing through the mountain passes, the hills, meadows, and vales. As Kim’s extended brushwork moves across the surface of his canvases, intervals of rhythmic notation and expression can be felt. In the process of being seen, they suggest feelings of the wind being consumed by aggregates of color within the artist’s wild, sweeping gestures. There is force in these paintings: the force of beauty in the process of revealing itself, on the threshold of coming alive. - Robert C. Morgan
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SOLO EXHIBITION
2017 TOW A-RU Gallery FUKUOKA JAPAN
2016 TENRI Gallery, New York, US
2015 Mobius Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Hyundai Department Store Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2014 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, US
2013 Able Fine Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2012 Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, US
Able Fine Art Gallery, New York, US
2011 Able Fine Art Gallery, New York,US
2010 Tokyo Mi Gallery,Tokyo, JAPAN
Gono Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
2009 Europe Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
KCC Gallery, Englewood, US
Seoul Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2008 Salon the Hululu Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2006 Sunlight Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
Repin Academy Museum, Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA
2005 Gallery Couteron, Paris, FRANCE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2017 Art Fair Fiac ALMINE RECH Gallery Paris France
ABSTRACTION TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK.US
Are Athina Asian Art Gallery Athens,GREECE
Singapore Art Show,d'Arte Gallery,SINGAPORE
Form & Content, Gallery 7, Athens,,GREECE
Gwangju Art,Museum,Gwangju,SOUTH KOREA
2016 Art LA,d'Arte Gallery,LA,US
Asia Contemporary Art Show, d'Arte Gallery, HONG KONG
Art Athina Asian Art Works, Line ane Gesture, Athens, GREECE
KACAL 17 NEW York, NY, US
Art Busan, d'Arte Gallery, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
American Contemporary Art Ltd, New York, US
Five Senses+1, d'Arte Gallery, New York, US
Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hyun Contemporary NY, US, HONG KONG
2015 Affordable Art Fair, DDP Seoul, K&P Gallery, New York, US, Seoul,SOUTH KOREA
Art Fair ASPEN, Donghwa Ode Gallery, Colorado, New York, US
The 8th Art Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Dongwha Ode Gallery, New York, US
Art Busan,Walter Wickiser Gallery, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
Art Busan, IL Ponte Galleria Firenze Italy, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
2014 Concept Miami,Waiter Wickieser Gallery,Miami,US
Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art,Asan Gallery, Cologne,GERMANY
KIAF Riverside Gallery,Seoul,SOUTH KOREA
2013 Gallery Artists Part X, Walter Wickieser Gallery, New York, US
Fair for Mocern and Contemporary Art, Asan Gallery, Cologne, GERMANY
The 37th ARTEX Seoul, Godo Gallery, JCAA Tokyo, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Houston Fine Art Fair, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Houston, US
Hampton Art Fair, Couteron Paris, FRANCE, New York, US
2012 Scope New York, Riverside Gallery, New York, US
Art Palm Beach, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Palm Beach, US
Korea Art Show, Godo Gallery, New York, US
China International Gallery Exposition, Able Fine Art Gallery, Beijing,CHINA
Gallery Artists Part IX, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, US
Korea American Contemporary Arts Lte, New York, US
K-Art, Godo Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
A&C Art Fair, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Tokyo Art Fair, JCAA Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN
Art Show Busan, Able Fine Art Gallery, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
KIAF, Able Fine Art Gallery, Seojong Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
A I Art Shopping au Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FRANCE
2011 Art Chicago, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Chicago, US
KIAF, Able Fine Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Art Palm Beach, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Palm Beach, US
Scope New York, Able Fine Art Chelsea, New York, US
Gallery Artists Part VIII,walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, US
2010 Art Miami, Walter Wickiser Gallery ,Miami, US
The New Abstractionsts III,Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, US
Seoul Open Art Fair,Able Fine Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
The 27th New York Art, Soho Ward-Nasse Gallery, JCAA, New York, US
The 32nd ARTEX New York, New York, US
The 32nd ARTEX Tokyo, Soya Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
The 33rd ARTEX Soul, Godo Gallery, Seoul JCAA, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2009 Art Fair Basel Miami, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Miami, US
RA 31EME ARTEX Paris, Paris, FRANCE
The 31st ARTEX New York, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, US
The 5th New York World Art Festival, New York, US
The 30th International IMPACT Art Festival,Kyoto City Museum,Kyoto,JAPAN
The 2nd World Open Art Festival, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Korea Contemporary Art Renaissance Exhibition, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
ARTEX Seoul, Insa Art Gallery, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2008 The 29th Internathonal IMPACT Art Festival,Kyoto City Museum,Kyoto,JAPAN
Abstract Watercolor 14th, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
A&C Art Fair Seoul, Seoul Museum, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
Korea Professional Art Mall Festival, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2007 The 27th ARTEX New Yoê°€, Ward-Nasse Gallery,New Yoê°€,US
2006 The 27th Internathonal IMPACT Art Festival,Kyoto City Museum,Kyoto,JAPAN
2004 The 25th International IMPACT Art Festival, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto,JAPAN
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
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1985∼2008 Professor, Eulji University,Seongnam, SOUTH KOREA
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