KHO NakBeom

Kho, Nak Beom’s paintings can be explained as the artist’s psychological and cultural view, idea, and memory are paused on the surface of his paintings. Kho’s ‘Museum Project’ includes his trademark, color stripe works, and the ‘Portrait Museum Series’, which is made based on the color stripe works. This project shows works that stop colors on the surface of paintings after extracting colors and setting specific limit. Kho’s paintings have been connected organically as they form a kind of network following the flow of his paranoid consciousness and the process of his thoughts developing from ‘Museum Project’, which started mid-90s, to geometrical abstract works that he made after mid-2000 and works that are transformed into paintings after movies and performances.
The title ‘Morning Glory’ is the starting point of his works’ key theme, which embeds episode of direct aesthetical interest’s motivation. This is exposed in a chain of processes of his works after about 2005 that the outlook on world of heterogeneous interaction of organic world and geometric world pervading the language study of duality. Therefore, it is morning glory in the process of circulation of all things in organic world, and at the same time, it is a work of mirrors colored as pentagon, which is accepted as a mathematical and geometrical figure that understands the law of the universe.

 

 

 

KHO NakBeom
Born in 1960, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
1989 M.F.A, Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
1987 B.F.A, Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2014 KROMA, Gallery IHN, Seoul
Take My Cherry, Corner Art Space, Seoul
2010 Color Pause, Space C, Seoul
2007 Melancholia, Leeahn gallery, Daegu
Pentagon, Cais Gallery, Seoul
2006 Galleria Muse, Galleria Department store, Suwon
2003 Project-Out of Blue, Art and Project Office, Seoul
Crossing, Jeju ICC, Jeju Island
His story, Her story, My Story, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul
2002 Remake, Hokkaido of the Hokkaido, Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon
2013 Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Songwon Art Center, Seoul
2012 Korean Artist Project
2011 Now in Daegu 2011, Daegu
2009 Alogon Affair, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Portraits, Museum of Seoul National University, Seoul
Walking on Color, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2008 Digital Spectrum, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2003 Sense, Sensibility, Busan Museum of Art, Busan
2002 11×11, Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002, Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul