For review of the postwar Korean art history and balanced development of Korean art transcending generation, Seoul Museum of Art has held 'SeMA three color project' since spring in 2012. Starting from 'SeMA Blue: 12 events for 12 rooms', 'SeMA Gold: hidden track' by 19 leading artists got a great attention from the public. 

In this time, 'SeMA Green' is to invite the senior artists who left an important achievement in Korean art and shed light on their art worlds. For the first exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art will be holding the solo exhibition of Ku-lim Kim, the first generation of avant-gardist in Korea . 

Born in 1936, Ku-lim Kim has developed his own art world without education and left a significant legacy in Korean avant-garde through the art groups, such as 'painting68,' 'A.G. Group,' and 'the fourth group.' Also, his activities covering a wide range of genres, like happening, installation, mail art, body painting and experimental film, had a great resonance with the Korean art in 1960's and 1970's, when people focused on painting and sculpture only. 

For this exhibition, his experimental works in 1960's and 1970's will be on display. Especially, produced 1969, the first experimental film in Korea 'a meaning of 1/24 seconds', which original one was lost after first playing at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in 2000, will be playing after restoration.
Above this, the first electric art in Korea 'construction of space' in 1968 and large-scale ice installation 'from phenomenon to the trace' will be on the show as well. 

The title 'Like You Know It All' is borrowed from the same name of the Korean movie by a director 'Hong Sang-soo' in 2009, and this exhibition is a message of humor and satire sending to Ku-lim Kim and Korean experimental art isolated from the korean art during the past half-century.

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a meaning of 1/24 seconds, 1969
color / b&w, no sound, 10min
© Ku-lim Kim

Courtesy of Seoul Museum of Art