Kim Ki-Chang

KIM KI-CHAN (Seoul, 1913 - 2001).
Untitled. From the series "Olympic Suite", 1992.
Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy PA 35/50.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.

Kim Ki-Chang began his training as an artist at the age of 16, making his debut at the Chosun Drawing exhibition in 1931. Over the following years he participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in Korea and in Europe, for example at the Oriental Museum in Switzerland in 1977, or at the Musée Sernice in Paris. His style recovers elements of oriental culture, which he treats in a new way. In this case the artist chooses the calligraphic motif as the central axis of the composition, traced in black on a background of intense red, a color of high symbolic value in the oriental world, associated with power and vital essence.

The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The chosen artists work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio Lopez to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, through abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, or the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international projection, widely recognized by critics.