KIM KI-CHAN (Seoul, 1913 - 2001). Untitled. From... Lot 20

KIM KI-CHAN (Seoul, 1913 - 2001). Untitled. From the series "Olympic Suite", 1992. Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 197/250. Signed and justified by hand. Size: 63 x 90 cm. Kim Ki-chang began his training as an artist at the age of 16, making his debut at the Chosun Drawing exhibition in 1931. Over the following years he took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in Korea and in Europe, for example at the Musée Orientale in Switzerland in 1977 and at the Musée Sernice in Paris. His style recovers elements of oriental culture, which he treats in a new way. In this case the artist chooses the calligraphic motif as the central axis of the composition, traced in black on a background of intense red, a colour of high symbolic value in the Eastern world, associated with power and the essence of life.