Kim En Joong
Shim Moon-seup (b.1943-), who uses vibrant nature as the basis of his work, explores the world of endless possibilities by experimenting with various media and forms. Shim has been exhibiting his works in Paris, Tokyo, and Beijing, and was awarded the Excellence Award at the 2nd Henry Moore Grand Prize in 1981 and the Chevalier dans I’ordre des Arts et Lettres in 2007. Since the mid-2000s, Shim has expanded the scope of his works that have continued as a sculptor by showing paintings and photography works. He mainly used materials from nature, such as soil, stone, wood, and iron for his sculptures, and pursued a state where nature and humans become a coherent whole and the poetic effects arising from these mutual interactions. Recently, while continuing his interests in nature, he tried to capture the infinite order, rhythm, movement, and enormous energy of waves in his canvas, recalling the sea, where he interacted and breathed with his whole body in his hometown of Tongyeong as a child. Shim paints the canvas with oil paint and repeats brushstrokes with watercolor on it, which often generates a mixture or separation of different substances. The repeated brushstrokes both reveal and hide the background, resembling a continuous field of waves forming and disappearing. The brushstrokes in his paintings seem to circulate infinitely. For him, painting is not an object locked in a rectangular frame, but a space with infinite mobility and circulation. In this way, Shim continues his works that convey the flow of meaning that constantly grows and changes.
조각가로 왕성하게 활동하다 2000년대 이후 회화작업을 병행하고 있다. 그의 회화는 바다의 수평선과 반복되는 물결의 이미지를 연상시킨다. 조각에서 물질의 개념을 탐구했던 그의 작업 철학이 페인팅에서 어떻게 반영되고 전개되는지를 살펴볼 수 있다. 심문섭의 작품은 생성과 소멸, 존재와 시간, 응집성과 개방성, 공존성과 기변성을 그대로 품고 있다.
“내가 추구하는 것은 인간과 물질이 서로 만나서 얽히는 사이의 시적인 양상이다,”
나의 방법은 바탕 만들기에서 그 과정의 치밀성을 들어낸다. 보통 20가지 색 면 층을 축적해나가는 일 자체가 엄청난 도로에 값한다. 또한 이를 적절하게 다듬어가는 긁어내기는 더욱 도로로 비친다. 무수하게 색층을 쌓아 올리는 일도 그렇거니와 쌓아 올린 색층을 긁어낸다는 것은 더욱 황당한 일로 치부되기 때문이다. 아마도 긁어냄으로써 획득되는 미묘한 물감층의 리듬이 없었더라면, 색깔들이 만드는 신비로운 광채가 없었더라면 얼마나 허무한 일이겠는가. 그리고 빼곡하게 채워지는 작은 방들의 내밀한 구성이 자아내는 웅장한 합창이 없었더라면 이 또한 얼마나 싱거운 표면이겠는가. 덕지덕지 쌓아 올린 안료 층의 육중한 시각적 압도는 만약 그 내면에 끊임없이 생성되는 생명의 리듬이 없었다면 그것은 단순한 덩어리에 지나지 않을 것이다.
Biography
Born
Education
Award
Selected Biography
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Collections
1940 Buyeo, South Chungcheong , Korea
1963 Graduated from Seoul National University College of Fine Arts
1967 Graduated from Seoul National University Graduate School of Fine Arts
1969-1976 Studies, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland and Catholic University of Paris, France
2023 Catholic Art Award Special Prize
2010 Order of Merit for Culture and Arts of France (Officer)
1965 Grand Prize at the 1st Korea Art Competition
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea
Leeum, Seoul
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Seoul Museum of Art
Hakone Museum, Japan
FNAC Paris
etc
2025 COULEURS de L’INVISIBLE, Chambord, France
2024 Father Kim In-jung and brother Kim Uk-joong's
complex cultural space Gwangseom Gallery twin
construction
2022-2024 Visiting Master's Professor,
Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, Korea
2021 Swiss 'Le Matin' Selected as one of the World's
Top 10 Stained Glass Artists
2019 Opening of Passage KIM Enjong
<Passage KIM Enjong> in Amber, France
2018 Opening of the permanent exhibition hall of so-ah Lee
Municipal in France, Jean Prouvé Artsener Kim In-joong
2016 Elected member of the French Catholic Academy
2008 Briwood Saint-Julien Cathedral Stained Glass, France
2006 Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass, France
1999 Stained glass of Evry Cathedral, Paris, France
1974 Admitted to the Dominican Order in France, ordained
a priest
2026 Woonjoong Gallery, Seongnam, Gyeonggi
2025 Château des Chambords, Loire-Escher, France Seosomun
Seongji History Museum, Seoul Jeoldusan Martyrs Museum, Seoul
2024 SpaceX, Seoul, Korea 2023 Bitseom Art Gallery, Cheongyang, Chungnam
2022 Yedam Gallery of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, Daegu 2021 Glass Island Museum, Incheon White Wave Gallery, Seoul
2020 Seoul Arts Center, Design Museum, Seoul, Korea 2018 Saint-Héloy Cathedral, Paris, France 2017 Vatican University of Urbaniana, Vatican 2015 Beauvais Saint-Pierre Cathedral Cathedral, Beauvais, France Chave Gallery, Vence, France 2014 Naumburg Cathedral. Naumburg, Germany Yoshi Gallery, Paris, France International Stained Glass Center, Chartres, France 2013 Homage to Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, France 2012 Yoshi Gallery, Paris, France Wii Notre Dame Cathedral, Wii, Belgium Saint-Etienne Bishop's Cathedral, Bourgeois, France 2011 Kim In-joong, Praise of Light, Sion, Belgium 2010 Chosun Ilbo Museum of Art. Seoul, South Korea Cathedral of the Bishop's Cathedral of Rouen-Notre-Dame, Rouen, France Saint-Irene Homage, Lyon, France Homage to Cardinal Darnell, Tulle, France 2009 Shave Gallery, Kim In-joong and Henri Michaud, Vence, France Cathedral of the Bishop's Cathedral of Saint-Gasian, Tours, France International Stained Glass Center, Chartres, France 2008 Yoshi Gallery, Paris, France Galerie Cageot Verrodière, Paris, France 2007 Ghent Cathedral of the Bishop's Seat, Ghent, Belgium Picasso, Borscht, Kim En-joong, Mondovi, Italy 2006 Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Trisee Abbey Center for Modern Art, Trisee, France 2005 Abbey, Amiens, France Cathedral of the Bishopric of Metz, Metz, France Cathedral of the Cathedral of Evry, Evry, France 2004 Gallery Guy Peters, Knokeheist, Belgium Chosun Ilbo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Yoshi Gallery, Paris, France Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2003 Galerie Sapone, Nice, France Paris Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France Dax Museum, Dax, France Angers Festival, Angers, France 2002 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, USA Gallery Taylor, Dublin, Ireland 2001 Gallery Cooter, Luxembourg 2000 Monastery of Santa Sabina. Rome, Italy Gallery Anna Dascanio, Rome, Italy Chosun Ilbo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1999 Le Priuret. Hérène, France Saint-Saturnen Château, Saint-Saturnem, France 1998 Gallery Cooter. Luxembourg Sylvanes Monastery, Sylvanes, France Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland 1997 Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Gallery Taylor. Dublin, Ireland 1996 Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1994 Gallery Anna Dastanio, Rome, Italy Chosun Ilbo Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 1992 Gallery Budelko, Bonn, Germany Galerie Fani Giyong Lafaille, Paris, France Gallery Carinthia, Vienna, Austria Diaghilev Center, St. Petersburg, Russia 1987 Gallery Me, Seoul, South Korea 1986 Gallery Cooter. Luxembourg Gallery Alice Foley, Lausanne, Switzerland 1983 Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France 1982 Galerie Shabe, Vence, France 1980 Jin Hwarang, Seoul, Korea 1979 Gallery Korea, New York, USA Jin Hwarang, Seoul, South Korea 1978 Besançon University of Fine Arts, Besançon, France Galerie Jacques Masol, Paris, France 1977 Galerie Jacques Masol, Paris, France Galerie Benador, Geneva, Switzerland 1976 Glorich Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1975 Galerie Jacques Masol, Paris, France 1974 Midopa Department Store Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1973 Galerie Jacques Masol, Paris, France 1968 Shinsegae Department Store Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1965 Newspaper Hall Gallery, Seoul, Korea
