
Eternal Scherzo
SilIvio Cattani, Hyunkyung Kim
About
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Italy, this exhibition is designed to reflect on the work of Silvio Cattani and Hyunkyung Kim, who have known each other as artistic colleagues and friends regardless of country, gender, or age, and to present new works. The exhibition's title alludes to the enduring relationship between the two countries and their distinct artistic worlds ascribed to the eternity of art. It uses the Italian word scherzo, meaning joke, and the Korean word for ink’s thickness and darkness as a double entendre, to play on Silvio's saturated, playful colors and Hyunkyung’s layered depths.
Silvio Cattani creates abstract paintings that guide the viewer on an inner journey through Matière that are evident in their color and technique, rather than suggesting a didactic message or specific examples. Like reading a poem's figurative memory, the artist's work searches for profound sources, and while no particular symbols or signs are intuitively apparent, the various iconography and autobiographical symbols invite the viewer to draw out their inner metaphors. From ceramics to glass, from drawing to collage, from paper to canvas, the artist's experimental tendencies are manifested in free gestures, through aesthetic decisions and multilayered editing, emphasizing that the scope for artistic experimentation is not limited, crossing the boundaries of Italian contemporary art research and public art creation.
Hyunkyung Kim expresses the overlap of time through ink, which is the thickness and darkness of Meok(ink). However, she breaks away from the conventional realistic depiction and aims for a new formative language not found in traditional ink painting. For example, rather than depicting the shape of a bamboo tree, she expresses his inner memories accumulated from experiencing a bamboo forest. On the reconstructed surface where the original images of nature and geometric compositions coexist, experimental methods such as scorch marks and knife cuts on the Hanji paper are revealed. This represents the spirit of emptying that underlies the artist's world of work, the freedom, and serenity she felt in this cycle of creation and destruction. In the process of repeatedly building up from the lightest ink to the pitch-black ink, the artist waits for the brush to pass over the ink and for the ink to dry completely, sometimes repeating the process more than 30 times. As waiting for the ink to deepen and not become cloudy after multiple layers, she embraces the process as part of her work. This contemporary interpretation, which acknowledges and expresses the distortion of nature and human nature as it is, rather than chasing after an organized and calm state, through the harmony of deep jokes, achieves the possibility of the artist's own unique sculptural world.
Rather than chasing a state of order and calm through the harmony of deep jokes, the contemporary interpretation that acknowledges and expresses the disturbance of nature and human beings as they are, achieves the possibility of the artist's own unique sculptural world.
Hyunkyung Kim expresses the overlap of time through ink, which is the thickness and darkness of Meok(ink). However, she breaks away from the conventional realistic depiction and aims for a new formative language not found in traditional ink painting. For example, rather than depicting the shape of a bamboo tree, she expresses his inner memories accumulated from experiencing a bamboo forest. On the reconstructed surface where the original images of nature and geometric compositions coexist, experimental methods such as scorch marks and knife cuts on the Hanji paper are revealed. This represents the spirit of emptying that underlies the artist's world of work, the freedom, and serenity she felt in this cycle of creation and destruction. In the process of repeatedly building up from the lightest ink to the pitch-black ink, the artist waits for the brush to pass over the ink and for the ink to dry completely, sometimes repeating the process more than 30 times. As waiting for the ink to deepen and not become cloudy after multiple layers, she embraces the process as part of her work. This contemporary interpretation, which acknowledges and expresses the distortion of nature and human nature as it is, rather than chasing after an organized and calm state, through the harmony of deep jokes, achieves the possibility of the artist's own unique sculptural world.
Rather than chasing a state of order and calm through the harmony of deep jokes, the contemporary interpretation that acknowledges and expresses the disturbance of nature and human beings as they are, achieves the possibility of the artist's own unique sculptural world.
Silvio's and Hyunkyung Kim's works are very different on the surface, but the essence is the same, only the difference is whether the color is applied or permeated. We hope that the viewer will experience a gradual fading inward in a single space and time where both works can be encountered, which is the boundary between the color that emanates and the color that is implied.
์ด๋ฒ ์ ์๋ ์ดํ๋ฆฌ์์ ํ๊ตญ ๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ต 140์ฃผ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ฌ ๊ตญ๊ฐ, ์ฑ๋ณ, ๋์ด์ ์ฝ๋งค์ด์ง ์๊ณ ์์ ์ ๋๋ฃ์ด์ ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์ง๋ธ ์ค๋น์ค ์นดํ๋์ ๊นํ๊ฒฝ์ ์์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ถํ๊ณ ์๋กญ๊ฒ ์์ ํ ์ ์์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ธฐํ๋์๋ค. ์ ์๋ช ์ ํตํด ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์๊ตญ ๊ฐ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์๊ฐ๋ณ๋ก ๋๋ ทํ ์์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ญ์ ์์ ์ ์์์ฑ์ ๊ท์๋์ด ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์์ ์์ํ๋ฉฐ ์ดํ๋ฆฌ์์ด๋ก ํดํ, ๋๋ด์ ๋ปํ๋ Scherzo ์ค์ผ๋ฅด์ด์ ๋จน์ ๋๋ด ๆฟๆทก ์ ์ค์์ ์๋ฏธ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ค๋น์ค์ ์ฑ๋ ๋์ ์ ์พํ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊นํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฒน๊ฒน์ด ์์ธ ๊น์ด๊ฐ์ ํจ๊ป ๋ค๋ฃฌ๋ค.
Silvio Cattani๋ ๊ตํ์ ์ธ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ํน์ ํ ์์๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์์ ์ฌ์คํ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ ๋งํฐ์๋ฅด๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ธธ์ก์ด๊ฐ ๋๋ ์ถ์ ํํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ์ํ์ ๋ง์น ์์ ๋น์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์ฝ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฌ์คํ ๊ทผ์์ ๋ํด ํ์ํ๋ฉฐ ํน์ ํ ๊ธฐํธ๋ ์ฌ์ธ์ด ์ง๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฌ๋์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง ๋ค์ํ ๋์๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์์ง์ ํตํด ๋ณด๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ก ํ์ฌ๊ธ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์ด๋ผ ์ ์๊ฒ๋ ์ ๋ํ๋ค. ๋์๊ธฐ์์ ์ ๋ฆฌ, ๋๋ก์์์ ์ฝ๋ผ์ฃผ, ์ข ์ด์ ์บ๋ฒ์ค์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์คํ์ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ ์ฒ์ฐฉํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ฏธํ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ค์ธต์ ํธ์ง์ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ์์ ๋ก์ด ์ ์ค์ฒ๋ก ๋ํ๋๋ฉฐ ์ดํ๋ฆฌ์์ ํ๋์์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๊ณต๊ณต์์ ์ฐฝ์์ ํญ์ ๋๋๋ค๋ฉฐ ์์ ์ ์คํ ์์ญ์ด ์ ํ๋์ง ์์์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค.
๊นํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋จน์ ํตํด ์๊ฐ์ ์ค์ฒฉ์ ํํํ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ฌ์ฌ ์์ฃผ์ ์ ํํ๋ ํ๋ฒ์ ํํผํ์ฌ ์ ํต์ ์๋ฌตํ์์ ์ฐพ์๋ณผ ์ ์์๋ ์๋ก์ด ์กฐํ์ธ์ด๋ฅผ ์งํฅํ๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ๋๋๋ฌด ์ ํ์๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋๋๋ฌด ์ฒ์ ๊ฒฝํํ๋ฉฐ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ ์๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฉด์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ถ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ํํํ๋ ์์ด๋ค. ๋ณธ๋ ์์ฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ๊ธฐํํ์ ํ๋ฉด์ด ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋ ๋ณ์ฃผ๋ ํ๋ฉด์์ ๊น๋งฃ๊ฒ ๊ทธ์๋ฆฐ ์๊ตญ๊ณผ ์นผ๋ก ์ปทํ ๋ ํ๋ฉด์ ํ์ธํ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ์๋ฌตํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๋น์๋ด๋ ์ ์ , ์์ฑ๊ณผ ์๋ฉธ์ ํ๊ท ์์์ ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ผ๋ ์์ ์ ํ์จ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํ๋ธ๋ค. ์์ฃผ ์ฐํ ๋จน๋ถํฐ ์์ํด ์น ํ ๊ฐ์ด ๊น๋ง ๋จน์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๋ฐ๋ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋จน์ ๋จธ๊ธ์ ๋ถ์ด ์ง๋๊ฐ๊ณ ๋จน์ด ์์ ํ ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋๊น์ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ์ด๋ฅผ 30ํ ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ๊ฒน์ณ๋ ํํด์ง์ง ์๊ณ ๊น์ด์ง๋ ๋จน์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์๊ฐ๋ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ ๊น์ง๋ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ถ๋ก ํฌ์ฉํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋ฏ ๊น์ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๋๋ด์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ๋งค๊ฐ๋ก ์ ๋๋๊ณ ์ฐจ๋ถํ ์ํ๋ง์ ์ซ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๋ค ์์ฐ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ฐ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ด๊ทธ๋ฌ์ง์ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ํํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํํ๋ ํ๋์ ํด์์ ์๊ฐ๋ง์ ๋ ์์ ์ธ ์กฐํ์ธ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ฃฌ๋ค.
์ค๋น์ค์ ๊นํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ธฐ์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง๋ง ์์ด ์นํ์ง๋๋ ํน์ ์์ด ์ค๋ฉฐ๋๋์ ์ฐจ์ด์ผ ๋ฟ ๋ณธ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ค. ๋ฐ์ฐํ๋ ์๊ณผ ํจ์ถํ๋ ์์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ์ด์ ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ง๋๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ํ๋์ ์๊ณต๊ฐ์์ ๋ด๋ฉด์ผ๋ก ์์ํ ํ์ด๋์ธ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
Selected Works
Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. Time
Colored Korean ink on paper 140x 384 cm 2024

Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. TimeColored Korean ink on paper 140x 384 cm 2024
Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. Time
Colored Korean ink on paper 60 x 60 cm 2024

Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. TimeColored Korean ink on paper 60 x 60 cm 2024
Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. Time
Colored Korean ink on paper, burning 60 x 60 cm 2024

Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. TimeColored Korean ink on paper, burning 60 x 60 cm 2024
Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. Time
Colored Korean ink on paper, burning 60 x 60 cm 2024

Hyunkyung Kim, Dear. TimeColored Korean ink on paper, burning 60 x 60 cm 2024
Silvio Cattani, Untitled
Mixed media on metal 100 x 200 cm 2023

Silvio Cattani, UntitledMixed media on metal 100 x 200 cm 2023
Silvio Cattani, Not all that my eyes see/ for Dylan Thomas Series
Mixed media on paper 43.7 x 56.3 cm 2021

Silvio Cattani, Not all that my eyes see/ for Dylan Thomas SeriesMixed media on paper 43.7 x 56.3 cm 2021
Silvio Cattani, Oriental series_4
Mixed media on paper 30 x 62 cm 2023

Silvio Cattani, Oriental series_4Mixed media on paper 30 x 62 cm 2023
Silvio Cattani, Not all that my eyes see/ for Dylan Thomas Series
Mixed media on paper 43.7 x 56.3 cm 20221

Silvio Cattani, Not all that my eyes see/ for Dylan Thomas SeriesMixed media on paper 43.7 x 56.3 cm 20221
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