Opening The New World exhiblition 김태헌 & 케니

It was on a bus during a journey to Southeast Asia that Kim Taeheon met Kenny.

Their accidental encounter led to another connection, enabling them to participate in an exhibition of pictures together. With their drawings, begun in the world, these artists encounter a new world.

Kenny, who majored in painting at a university in Thailand, teaches art to children every weekend, paints portraits, writes and illustrates for magazines, and writes biographies about elderly artists. He takes on various additional side jobs in order to continue his beloved painting work. From 2~3 a.m., in the dark of night, Kenny paints together with coffee, as if writing a daily journal. He wanders in search of an imaginary world, painting the world of souls, sometimes entering the pictures to examine his inner self.

Kenny, who discovers himself through his relations with others, has come this far while learning everything necessary for survival in this busy and difficult life. Among his 333 Coffee Time drawings, 30 show his unique world through round frames representing the black night.

The world of Kim Taeheon, shown through round frames of the white day, draws one’s gaze deep inside. With old, obsolete windscreen pictures as ground, space men float around in the folk-style paintings, with everything blacked out but the necessary parts. The surreal situation, where past and future meet, moves us to ask, “What is this?” and to think again about the existing picture. In a world where everything so rapidly disappears and is forgotten, these paintings on discarded screens are given new life, forming a series of nine works known as Garden of Night: Space Man. These sensuous paintings pulled out from the world by Kim Taeheon present spectators with the pleasure of contemplation. “Nolja” Kim Taeheon, who encounters a new world every day through his painting, enjoys his present life and looks at the world with new vision in order to act through his work.

What does the world mean to these artists and to us? Perhaps the genuinely new world is the one we see when we close our eyes and let go of everything!

Jungran Cho, Director, nook gallery

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"The New World"

김태헌 & 케니 Kim Teaheon & Kenny 2017.10.20-11.17

The New World ได้รับความสนใจเกินคาดครับ ตอนแรกคิดว่าคงได้ไปยืนยิ้มที่หน้าผลงาน แล้วรอคนมาถาม แต่ผิดคาด..

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김태헌 Kim Taeheon

김태헌(1964)은 경원대학교 미술대학에서 그림을 전공했다.

스타일 없이 그림을 통해 삶을 확장하고 있으며, 작업에 대한 생각들이 모이면 전시와 책으로 사람들을 만나며 소통중이다. 이 모든 것들의 중심엔 ‘놀자’가 있다. 전시는 스페이스몸미술관 <BIG BOY/2016>를비롯해 11회의 개인전을 가졌으며, 다수의 단체전에 참여하였다. 책 작업으로 <공간의 파괴와 생성>, <1번국도>, <그림 밖으로 걷다>, <붕붕> 등이 있으며, 2016년에 만든 책으로 <빅보이>, <연주야 출근하지 마>가 있다. 서울시립미술관, 금호미술관, 성곡미술관, 부산민주기념관, 경기도미술관등 주요기관에 작품이 소장되어 있다. 현재 대학에 출강하며 경기도와 서울을 근거로 작업 활동을 하고 있다.

나는 그림으로 매일 다른 세상을 만난다.

사실 일상은 되풀이 되는 삶의 연속이지만, 그래도 세상을 새롭게 바라보려 한다.

그런 나의 태도가 묻어있는 그림은 ‘어떻게, 어떤 걸 그릴까?’보다 주로 ‘그림으로 무얼 할 수 있을까?’로 시작하며, 작업 진행과정을 살짝 뒤틀어 형식주의는 되도록 뒤로 미뤄놓고 세상으로 뛰어들고 있다. 이번 전시는 최근 내가 만난 풍경과 부딪치고 소요하고, 자주 미소 짓다가 하릴없이 멍할 때 거기에 주저앉아 끌어올린 것들이다. 그것들은 세상 속 무언가를 잽싸게 포획한, 그렇지만 알듯 모를 듯한 감각에 의존해 그려놓은, 그래서 모호하지만 더 선명해진 그림이다. 그렇게 완성된 네모의 그림들이 동그란 프레임으로 재구성되었다. 거기에 맨드라미, 인왕산, 밤의 정원-우주인, 길 위에서-내몽골 등이 있다. 그리고 ‘그림으로 무얼 할 수 있을까’하는 즐거운 짓은 동남아 여행을 하다 만난 케니와의 2인 전으로까지 진행되었다.

네모난 프레임의 그림은 그림 밖으로까지 길이 나있다. 재능 있는 작가들은 그림 밖의 공간까지 함께 그려 놓기 때문이다. 한편 동그란 프레임의 그림은 밖이 아닌 구멍 속으로 관람자를 깊게 끌어들이며, 어느 순간 관람자의 손을 놓고 슬쩍 빠진다.

_김태헌

Kenny 본명 Witthaya Srimuang

Kenny(1973)는 태국 북부 치앙마이에 있는 Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna에서 미술을 전공했다. 그의 작업은 세상 속에서 시작되며, 사람들과의 관계를 통해 그림을 들여다보며 동시에 자신을 발견하고 있다. 태국 치앙마이를 중심으로 9회의 전시를 가졌으며, 2002년부터 태국 Phitsanulok에서 Arts therapy와 미술을 가르쳐 왔다. 현재 Phichai(태국중부 작은 마을)에 거주하며 가족과 함께 작은 Café-Noodles와 art스튜디오를 운영하면서 아이들을 가르치고 있다. 또한 지역 역사문화를 알리고자 해설사로도 활동하고 있다.

I'm really happy that I decided to studies about arts when I was young. Because now I believe arts can apply to everything in our life. This story is about the spirit and human souls.

I'm learning and doing artworks all of my life.

I try to learn inside of my mind for deep in touch the people by my artwork. It's the wave of vibrations in thought to connect people. Just like we can't see our breath but we know it's true and there's the reality of life.

I start a lesson by observing inside and outside myself. Because I believe if we want to know other people we must know our self before.

I present all of the things by drawing, sketching, pastel color, watercolor, oil color, painting by coffee and etc.

I wish my works can help everybody to know themselves. And the last I wish all of you have a great and wonderful life.

_Kenny