Gwangju Art Museum is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Tschang Yeul Kim called as 'the painter of water drop.' Through an object 'water drop,' he has been praised for turning Oriental spirit into contemporary art. He is one of leading artists in Korean modern and contemporary art.
His 'Water Drops' series has been started in the first solo exhibition in Paris in 1973 as drawing water drops on hemp cloth.
Water drops drawn by him have a white dot from light, reflected light, and pure and clean shadow. Rather than real water drop, this is from people's imagination, or conceptual one like morning dew.
At the beginning, using the rough surface of hemp, he filled a whole space or edges with water drops, and drew them on layered Chinese characters or juxtaposed together. Such contrasting expression made water drops purer. Water drops to him was the requiem for the war victims, and purifying himself, and his works also depicted illusion and reality, the artist in the past and the present with longing for innocent, and tension and freshness.
The exhibition introduces various works from his early time to recent. 

*image (left)
water drops, 1983
acrylic and oil on canvas, 182x230cm
courtesy of the artist