Minjung Kim valuation
Korean artist of layered, burnt mulberry paper and ink, trained in calligraphy and watercolour, who works in France and the US.
Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1962 and trained in East Asian calligraphy and under several teachers, among them the watercolourist Yeongyun Kang.
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Bio
Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1962 and trained in East Asian calligraphy and under several teachers, among them the watercolourist Yeongyun Kang. She graduated from Hongik University in Seoul in 1985 and took a master's degree there, then moved to Milan and earned a diploma from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. She now lives and works between France and the United States. Calligraphy taught her a closely controlled use of the brush, and she paints on the floor, following East Asian tradition. In 1998 she began to work with layered paper, burning parts of the surface of mulberry hanji paper and building the sheets up in layers, a process she links to emotional healing and transformation. Her work draws on Dansaekhwa, Korean monochrome painting, and on Western Abstract Expressionism; in her Phasing series, layers of burnt hanji carry gestural marks in ink. She has shown at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, MACRO in Rome, the OCI Museum of Art in Seoul and the Princeton University Art Museum, and her work is in the British Museum and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art.
Her works are unique pieces in ink and burnt hanji paper, usually framed. Burnt edges and thin layers of paper are fragile, so check for losses, lifting and fading, and keep a work behind glazing that filters ultraviolet light. The title, date and gallery invoice should stay with it.
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