KIM
JUNG
GI
#LiveDrawing #Memory #Improvisation
#LiveDrawing #Memory #Improvisation
Overwhelming memory and razor-sharp observation —
a single line, a singular world.
Discover the works of the late artist Kim Jung Gi.
ARTTAG, 4F, Connect Place Seoul Station
378 Cheongpa-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Open daily 10:30–19:30
The Kim Jung Gi exhibition continues
on the 4th floor of Connect Place Seoul Station.
KIM JUNG GI
The collaborative project Sing in the Picture by Kim Jung Gi and traditional
percussionist Sora Kim began in 2022 and was released as an album in February 2023.
The project takes the form of an art film combining drawing and music, featuring a total of six musical tracks and six artworks. Kim Jung Gi was not able to complete all of the drawings originally planned for the project, and some of the tracks were accompanied by previously existing works instead.
This work was created for the 2021 solo exhibition at Lotte Museum. It is a modern reinterpretation of the traditional Korean folktale The Sun and the Moon (Haenim Dalnim).
The piece is filled with the artist’s distinctive humor and sharp observational wit. It contrasts a poor young brother and sister with wealthy children adorned in luxury goods, and depicts their mother selling rice cakes in front of McDonald's (not Lotteria, one can imagine the disappointment of Lotte affiliates). The artwork invites viewers to discover these playful and ironic details one by one.
In the end, instead of escaping the tiger by climbing a rope to the sky as in the original tale, the children board a spaceship and ascend into space to become the sun and the moon. This imaginative twist highlights the artist’s unique and inventive storytelling.
The collaborative project Sing in the Picture by Kim Jung Gi and traditional percussionist Sora Kim began in 2022 and was released as an album in February 2023.
The project takes the form of an art film combining drawing and music, featuring a total of six musical tracks and six artworks. Kim Jung Gi was not able to complete all of the drawings originally planned for the project, and some of the tracks were accompanied by previously existing works instead.
In early 2022, he collaborated with Adidas and the Korean cultural platform Kasina on a shoe design project. The product was finalized and released in 2023 under the title The Master, accompanied by an exhibition in Seoul.
This work was created as the artwork for the shoebox packaging released at that time.
This work was prepared for the group exhibition Amulet_Horyeongjeon_Awakening the Tiger, held in 2022 to mark the Year of the Tiger. Created gradually over time on traditional Korean paper (hanji) using traditional ink with reddish and bluish undertones, it is one of the few drawings the artist did not produce as a live drawing in front of an audience. In the piece, the rabbit is metaphorically depicted as a virus, while the tiger represents the force that eradicates it—an allegorical reflection of the COVID-19 era.
A drawing commissioned by CJ ENM for inclusion in a promotional video for the [70th Anniversary of Liberation Film Project Competition].
The work centers on themes such as Korea’s liberation, patriotism and love of the nation, national prosperity, and the envisioned future development of the Republic of Korea.
This work was created in 2018 for auction at Christie's.
Combining history and folklore, the artist brings together myths and legends in a single scene, depicting a traditional wedding ceremony in which these symbolic figures gather to celebrate a young couple.
This work was created in 2014 for use at the 95th anniversary ceremony of Korea’s March 1st Independence Movement Day (Samiljeol).
Initially, the piece was based on the original woodblock-printed version of the Korean national flag used during the independence movement. However, at the request of the government, it was revised to reflect the current design of the Taegeukgi, the national flag of the Republic of Korea. As a result, the initial woodblock-style draft was ultimately not used.
The artwork brings together significant moments in the history of the Republic of Korea, beginning with the March 1st Movement and tracing the nation’s development in the years that followed.