H.K. Kwon

First, he creates a loose base in black or white on the canvas. When he wants to achieve a smeared effect, he applies poppy oil to hydrate the support. The background paint is neither a simple underpainting, nor even a carefully prepared sketch. It is simply a ‘brushstroke’, a writing based on automatism. He then creates an expression of the canvas against the background. He repeatedly draws a certain trajectory neatly from top to bottom with a finger or a knife. The paint is sometimes superimposed by accident, leaving a texture with different thicknesses. Superimposing a new expression on the colour already drawn on the background amounts to ‘drawing’ and ‘erasing’ at the same time. The process of clumping and overlapping, of creating and extinguishing, is directly linked to composition, colour, thickness, density and texture. 

Born in 1977 in South Korea ; Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
- Promenade, Curator Hervé Mikaeloff, SLAG&RX Gallery, New York, USA.
2023
- Lignes avec vue, RX&SLAG Gallery, Paris, France. 
2022
- Promenade, ChoEunsook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2019
- If the Wind Let Go, ChoEunsook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2018
- If the Wind Let Go, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France.
2017
- If the Wind Let Go, ChoEunsook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2015
- If the Wind Let Go, LeeEugean Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2012
- If the Wind Let Go, Seohwa Gallery, Séoul, Corée du Sud.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
- Good Morning Korea, Au pays du matin calme, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France.
2017
- Post illusion, ChoEunsook Gallery, Séoul, Corée du Sud.