2007 collection by Kim Kyoungae

M O D E R A T O

Paintings on canvas
Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai

December 6 to 15, 2007

Moderato 1 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches 2006

Moderato 2 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 72 inches 2006

Moderato 3 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 72 inches 2006

Moderato 4 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 72 inches 2006

Moderato 5 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 inches 2007

Kim Kyoungae’s latest collection is titled ‘Moderato’. This is a term used to describe music that is not too fast and not too slow. Kyoungae is inspired by this word which means moderate. She says in life one tries to perform a balancing act and practice moderation in action and decisions one takes. As a Korean living in India for several years and adapting to the life here, Kyoungae says:

“My life is hybrid. I am replanted in a different soil. I have to maintain moderation between my Korean roots and my Indian surrounding. These paintings reflect my age and stage in life.”

For Kyoungae, 41, painting is a kind of meditation. Her understanding of life and what she is experiencing is reflected in her work. For her painting this collection was like writing poetry. This suite marks her ambitious attempt at painting on a bigger scale. There are three 8 x 6 feet paintings, besides other sizes.

Curator Jasmine Shah Varma says about her work: “How does one imbue the idea of moderation in the medium of painting? Two worlds seamlessly come together in Kyoungae’s works. One is the world that surrounds us and the other is within thoughts and memory. She metaphorically expresses the middle path between what one has and what one aspires to have, between this path and that path. Her works are not literal but experiential.”

Moderato 6 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 inches 2007

Moderato 7 Acrylic on canvas 96 x 72 inches 2007

Moderato 8 Acrylic on canvas 96 x 72 inches 2007

Moderato 9 Acrylic on canvas 96 x 72 inches 2007

Moderato 10 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 inches 2007

Select biography

Kim Kyoungae was born in 1966 in Sunsan, Kumi, South Korea.

She completed MA in Museology at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda in 1996. Before that in 1992 she completed BFA Oriental Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Andong National University, South Korea.

Kyoungae has had five solo exhibitions between 1996 and 2006 including ‘Beyond Horizon’ at Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai in 2006. Her works have been exhibited since 1993 in various group shows organised by different galleries in South Korea, Indian cities such as Baroda, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and in New York, USA. Her recent participations are “Baroda’s Most Wanted”, Space, the Artists’ Studio, Baroda 2006; through 2007 she showed her works in “A Slice of Art from India” RL Finearts, New York, “The Female Hero”, Lemongrasshopper, Ahmedabad, “Contemporary South Korean Art” and “Instilling Life” Hacienda Gallery, Mumbai, and curated show at Birla Art and Academy, Kolkata.

She has participated in art camps such as “Monsoon Moods” at Vasind, Thane, by the Jindal South West Foundation and the 10^th Oberoi Art Camp, 2007, Mumbai.

The artist is based in Baroda, living and working here since 1994.

See Kim Kyoungae's collection from February 2006 here