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KIM SOON CHEOL

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Introduction of Artist
Kim Soon Cheol is creating her artworks with adding texture and diversity to oriental paintings that feel rather flat. She brought sewing to the canvas using ordinary materials such as thread and needle and built her own special world of art.
She says that the virtue of oriental painting lies in emptiness. From this artistic context, her artworks, which places an object in the center and fills the paper with layers of stitching and coloring, feels very heterogeneous. She eliminate unnecessary elements while focuses entirely on the message she wants to express. If you feel the time of patience of the artist who exquisitely stitched up with traditional materials, you can imagine the work process outside the canvas, which will be the power that comes from the artist's unique aesthetic of emptiness.
The major objects in her recent artworks are composed of flowers, jars, and chairs. These are not objects of description or representation, but symbolic signs that contain the artist's wishes. At first glance, the symbol in the shape of a flower was brought to the canvas by her after seeing the appearance of cabbages wasted in the cabbage field, showing that it can also be seen as flowers in full bloom depending on the viewing point of view. She expresses the desire to bloom through flower artwork series. The pot boasting a graceful appearance in the center of the artwork is a symbol as a container for good things, and it bears the artist's wish to empty the complexity and contain what she wants. In addition, a chair that is generally made with four legs is expressed with two legs in the artwork, which is a shape that represents the artist's appearance, and the artist's will to stand up firmly on two legs. The shapes containing these wishes are symbols containing the artist's hopes to be light, empty, and tidy, which explains why her artwork was titled “About Wish.”
The reason why she chose sewing as the main way to express these symbols is that she wants to show that everyday behavior can be different by bringing the ordinary acts of sewing in our lives into her artworks. However, the most important reason is that the disordered mind is tidied up through the repeated and exhausting process of sewing, and the artist is healed through the medium of auspicious meaning, and the viewer wants it to be the same.
We tend to define a person or identify a situation by looking at the one side we see. When viewed from the front side, the stitching appears to be a neat and well-organized surface, but when viewed from the back side, unlike the front, it is complicated and many knots are intertwined. It is like watching a swan swimming leisurely on the shore of a lake. Kim Soon Cheol hopes that viewers can gain strength by proving through her artwork that anyone who seems to be floundering underwater can be beautiful, blooming, and confident in some way.
Kim Soon Cheol graduated from Hongik University, and graduated at the same graduate school with a master's course in Oriental Painting. She held 35 solo exhibitions including and participated in more than 300 domestic and international art fairs and group exhibitions. Her artworks are owned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Woljeon Museum of art Incheon, etc., and she has received various awards such as the 2005 Kyunghyang Shinmun “Artist of the Day” award and the 2005 Beijing Art Fair Silver Prize.

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