“To the Last Generation, Kim Yong-Ik” Installation view at Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art © Seoul Museum of ArtFrom August 24 to November 19, the Seoul Museum of Art will present To the Last Generation, Kim Yong-Ik, a solo exhibition by artist Kim Yong-IK (b. 1947). The exhibition space is designed as a stack of paper boxes, inspired by the artist’s practice of releasing his work in paper boxes to finalize his early ‘Plane Object’ series.
Kim Yong-Ik began his work in the 1970s and has continued to work independently until today, unable to be categorized into a single tendency. Through his work in conceptual art, modernist art, and public art, he has sought to disrupt the art institution, and to ask the ontological question, “How we should be?” This exhibition pays particular attention to the ecological perspective and ontological questions that the artist has been developing since the 2000s.
The exhibition is organized into six parts, presenting a wide range of works from the artist’s early years to the present day. In particular, the vast collection of archives, which has been collected by the Seoul Museum of Art, will be displayed together to enhance understanding of the artist. As the exhibition is held at the Art Archives, a separate section called “Archive of Thoughts” will be set aside to bring visitors closer to Kim Yong-IK’s archives. Also, the ‘Packing/Unpacking’ project, in which the experience of the archive exhibition is materialized into a questionnaire and then stored in a box, is added to help visitors who are unfamiliar with the archive exhibition.
