Minjung Kim at Leslie Sacks Fine Art




I had a wonderful time at the Leslie Sacks Fine Art gallery honoring Minjung Kim. The presentation of her art was so beautiful and it was a real pleasure to meet her in person. Her work is just breathtaking!
 
Minjung Kim is a Korean-born artist living in Milan, Italy. Her recent work, a series of signed rice paper rosettes that form constellations on open, hand-made paper fields, deal with the theme of predestination. “Each moment of ourselves is always predestined,” she explained, “it is as if it is already designed.” Kim is a seeker who tunes herself to search for harmonies and connections that form a kind of aesthetic web of fate. Creating art is her way of making peace with life’s joys and problems.
 
Her exhibit at Leslie Sacks was the first American showing of her works since her very successful solo exhibitions at Leslie Sacks Fine Art in 2003 and 2007. Kim’s first solo museum exhibition was held in 1991 at the Injae Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea. Her works have also been exhibited at the Hong Ik and Kwanhoon museums, Seoul, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kwachun, South Korea. Kim’s work was shown in the 2009 Venice Biennale.
 
View the video of her speech!
 
About Leslie Sacks Fine Art
 
Leslie Sacks established his first gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1981. Leslie Sacks Fine Art opened in the Los Angeles community of Brentwood in 1992 and has become an important American venue specializing in fine prints and rare works on paper by modern and contemporary European and American masters. Leslie Sacks Fine Art also represents a select roster of important mid-career contemporary artists including Shane Guffogg, Minjung Kim, and Jon Krawczyk. Leslie Sacks Fine Art is a member of the California Art Dealers Association and the International Fine Print Dealers Association.
 
While specializing in fine prints and unique works on paper, the gallery’s collection also includes painting, sculpture, and illustrated artists’ books (Livres d’artistes), impressionist and expressionist works, and a thoroughly vetted collection of African tribal art. In addition to holding a substantial owned inventory of Leslie Sacks, Fine Artworks with dealers and collectors throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States to source and discretely sell important impressionist, post-impressionist, and 20th-century art.
 
In 2007 Leslie Sacks Fine Art acquired Bobbie Greenfield Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California. Now called Leslie Sacks Contemporary, this sister gallery specializes in prints, works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by post-war and contemporary masters, and represents, in Los Angeles, the estate of Robert Motherwell (The Dedalus Foundation), and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
 
Gallery Philosophy
 
Western civilization’s passion for structure and explanation has separated mind from body and emotion from the psyche, along with every other possible subdivision. This dislocation of what is essentially interconnected and universal has led Western man in a direction opposite that of traditional Eastern culture and other more naturalistic peoples. This cultural difference notwithstanding, if one were to scientifically investigate the commonalities between various peoples, one would probably find that the differences are vastly in the minority when compared with the incidence of natural similarities.
 
Likewise, in the art world there is more commonality than the difference between modern art and tribal art, contemporary art, and German Expressionism, lithographs and oils; more shared than disparate between ceramics and illustrated books, theatre, and music. There need be no artificial barriers between disciplines. It is possible for a gallery, a collector, or a museum to show and enjoy a variety of seemingly disparate works because the innate universality of elements predominates for the viewer who is open to the river of life flowing through all of humanity’s inspired creations.
 
French Impressionism started a great cycle of change, throwing off the strictures and limitations of hundreds, indeed thousands, of years of the Western canon. This change continued with Post Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, and German Expressionism, to name but a few nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements. The culmination and refinement of many of these exciting and challenging directions were delineated in modern art, which produced a new renaissance. Picasso, Miro, Marini, Matisse, Moore, Kandinsky, Pollock, Rothko, and a host of artists have distilled the essence of the centuries of art that preceded ours and restated the precepts of the classical in previously unimaginable ways, thereby deconstructing artificial barriers that would disconnect the past from the present, while challenging future generations to do the same.
 
 
 

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