Kim Dong gi is a middle age artist who is well known as black painting. Kim dong gi, who has many great fan collectors inside and outside of country inquire into expressionism technique for almost 30 years. He expresses strong textures by painting with colors in thick canvas. Also, experience of his hand and emotion condense entirely into picture. The artist sometimes mixes with water color, acrylic and oil paint on paper, and by scratch surface with knife express rough and coarse.
Kim dong gi's a consistent them is about his life, being as an artist, a person who involved in this period and an artist who has a dream. He never leaves outside of country. Therefore, this beijing exhibition is his the first exhibition which will held in foreign country. When you see the exhibition, the most important point is his painting is pure Korean characteristic painting which is not influenced by any other artists' art work. This might be seems impossible story or meaningless discourse in this period. However, natural power of expression is artist's life, that life's symbol, so this is the basic requirement which guarantee Korean art's competitiveness.
The black color of Kim Dong-gi's is about transcendence. The power of the transcendence is not from outer, it is from inner. Light and shade, aliveness and death, the good and the evil, love and hate, man and woman, self and other, matter and spirit etcetera, in the fact, all these kind of opposable distinctions is only the distinguish of the valuation among people. Darkness and light might be one body. Love always accompanied by parting from, we are going to die while we alive in the same time. All these kind of opposable distinctions is not permitted by the truth of nature. It is the fact that aliveness and death are the whole, man and woman are not two opposite patterns, it is just the attitude to formal differentiating way about people, they are a great existence which all of them who called people, and what Kim Dong-gi expressed on his paintings is the matter of the fact. It is his awareness, which is from an ordinary truth that by the darksome shadow we could perceive the light that is only his inner transcendence.
