Small Marks, Big Spaces The Paintings of Yeong Gill Kim
April 01, 1999 Art Asia Pacific
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Kim differentiates between our knowledge of art as a material medium and its ability to affect the imagination. He returns the work to the viewer, believing that the dialogue between the two is achieved only when 'physical limitations are jumped over." As he understands it, the severe simplicity of his art may be a way of intentionally neglecting external experience in favor of something other, something beyond normal recognition. When the artist returned to Korea two years ago, a monk staying at a friend's house read his face and told him, "You could have become a superb monk if you had decided to do so." Kim laughs at the assertion, knowing that, in his case, becoming a monk and an artist are one and the same."
– Jonathan Goodman
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