The object dates, just like how the previous one, from 1977 and is called in Mai 2023 in our hall auction at a limit price of € 55,000.
By the Result already mentioned in the introduction, our consignor of the water drops now to be auctioned on has become aware of us. Corresponding to the current technical possibilities and the simple accessibility your works in our house estimate and auction to let, we offer also the possibility of the inquiry over WhatsApp . This uncomplicated way has also gone our consignor and has presented his object .
Success story of an art investment
Since his wedding, the object of the Korean artist has accompanied our consignor from North Rhine-Westphalia. At that time he had decided to place the monetary gift of his future father-in-law as an investment in art. Contrary to all expectations of the family, he was right with his understanding, trust and feeling in the selected art, because from the amount of 1000 DM at that time, the market value to be estimated has already multiplied.
Kim Along with Nam June Paik and Lee Ufan, Tschang-Yeul is considered one of Korea's most famous contemporary artists artist . He has been committed to the arts since the beginning of his creative for career and was inducted into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2013, receiving an award for for his cultural achievements. Justified, considering not only his artistic work, but also the political circumstances under which he lived. This includes the then Japanese-occupied Korea - today's North Korea. After the division of the country, he was arrested as a young man and and after ten days of imprisonment fled to what was then Seoul, which in turn was under U.S. control.
Kim Tschang-Yeul - Abstraction meets Hyperrealism
Kim Tschang-Yeul studied art at Seoul National University. In 1958, he founded the Modern Artists' Association and joined the Informel movement, led by Whanki Kim, a pioneering Korean abstract artist . The Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to receive a scholarship to study at the Art Students League of New York. Subsequently, Kim Tschang-Yeul moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 2021.
for his almost meditative conception in the representation of water drops Kim Tschang-Yeul is celebrated worldwide. Thereby the artist abstraction and hyperrealism uses at the same time to represent the fine water drops on of the canvas and to create a natural calm in his works.
The artist filled his works with the Taoist principles of his upbringing and characterized water as an amorphous entity imbued with the power of dissolution and purification. The drops of water set in fine painting on the rough canvas seem so fragile and at the same time firmly mounted, as if one could take them how marbles from the picture support.
The origin of the drops raises questions on: Did they drop from the sky on the canvas or have they pressed through the fibers of the surface? Likewise, one would think that such a rough surface texture would be dangerous for a natural drop of water. Each of the numerous drops shown here is individual, so how it it would also be in nature. All of them are illuminated by a light source slightly elevated from the side and beat their shaped shadows in opposite directions. In the process, the strands of the canvas shine through the translucent body of water. Their fine texture could burst through the porous structures or even be absorbed and but all the water drops on this picture already withstand for decades.
Hope and Confidence in a world of borders
The works of Kim Tschang-Yeul strike a kind of meditation and so can be drawn from the contemplation wisdom of life: The one familiar water drop that sets water in motion to a ripple. The water that, as an element of nature, symbolizes life itself. So also the sum of infinite water drops that make up oceans. All these parallels can be related on the water drops on the gray-brown canvas.
Perhaps not astonishing, that the artist straight this organization means made itself, if one looks at its life way to it. He as artist, as free and creative head, lived in a world with strong borders and political regulations. Yet the drop remains and gives the viewer with it not only joy about the beauty of a drop of water, but even hope and confidence on a better world.
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