Gallery Yonhee is pleased to present the group exhibition “單Dan-Only: Bongyeol Lee, Choongsup Lim, Hodeuk Kim, ChungYoon Kim”. The show will run fron Dec. 18, 2018 – Jan. 30, 2019, with an opening reception on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 from 6pm and the Classical Music Concert will start from 7:30PM.

“DAN” the title of the exhibition is derived from Dansaekhwa, which means a single color painting. In other words, it can be called Monochrome painting. Monochrome painting is the ultimate goal of the hue itself. It is an art form that has a very distinctive self-identity and a world of Korean aesthetics. It can be seen that in monochromatic, there is another self-language that penetrates art terminology and grammar in the contemporary world.

Bongyeol Lee started painting after the Korean War of the 1960s. This was a period of great poverty and confusion, and in this uncertain time he may have started painting as a way to identify himself. Lee is a pioneer of monochromatization in Korea, exploring the coexistence of lines and spaces, and from 1970 onwards he has illustrated the creation of the universe and its processes in his work. Through his paintings, he shows an abstract work that emits Korea’s unique colors and Western formative beauty simultaneously. Also, his paintings represent the purity of the lines in an empty and flat space. He had only 7 solo exhibitions, including Hyundai Gallery in Seoul Korea.

ChoongSup Lim shows the connection between nature and culture through his work by combining various mediums into one. The mediums used by his work connect the discoveries of the city’s daily life with the memories of the artist involved to create breath-taking moments in which audiences can breathe and feel nature in the fast pace of the cities. His work expresses the combination of minimalism and conceptual art. Lim graduated from both Seoul Arts High School and graduated from Seoul National University and graduated from New York University majoring in Fine Arts. He currently lives in New York City. He is a well established artist in New York.

ChungYoon Kim shows his geometric structure, which is a combination of straight line and surface. He mainly exhibited works that can be placed on the floor with a large-scale, but he presents a wall hanging piece in this exhibition. Kim also emphasizes the balance and weight of the object in a straight line that shows a minimal form, which gives viewers a sense of security. Also, his works simply depict the link between human and nature, but the use of heavy materials makes the meaning of the work stronger and grander. Kim is a sculptor based in New York City. He received his MFA at Pratt Institute, BA at Hong-Ik University, and Seoul High School of Music and Art, majored in sculpture. Recently he had a solo exhibition at the Youngeun Museum in Korea.

Ho-Deuk Kim is a painter who is leading modern art in Korea. He is the original creator of the hieroglyphic character ‘Muk,’ which is a traditional Korean ink. He completes his work using his own visual language with modern representations. Kim expresses the oriental spirit in his work with the power and speed of his intense brushstrokes, and the changes in form of his paintings. His work is composed of ink and margins which are filled with tension and show the result of his exploration of space-time bonding. He demonstrates various meanings in his work which demonstrates the harmony that can exist in the concepts of existence and absence, vacancy and fullness, yin and yang. Kim graduated from both Seoul National University and grad school majoring in painting and is recognized as a major contributor in Korean art. Recently, Kim had a four-people exhibition with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Lee Bae in Korea.