Yun Hyong-keun (Palazzo Fortuny)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication Date: 2019
Texts by David Anfam and Kim In-hye
Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007) was one of the most prominent abstract monochromists. Internationally admired during his life (Donald Judd was an advocate and friend), he belongs to a generation of artists whose influence has been crucial since the end of the Korean War. Both the war itself and its aftermath deeply affected the artist. In the 1970s Yun Hyong-keun joined the Dansaekhwa movement, a leading group of Korean artists whose monochromatic paintings intensively explored the effects and nature of color.
This handsomely produced volume, accompanying a major exhibition at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, offers a cornucopia of artistic and personal materials from the artist’s estate, which together provide great insight into the life and work of one of the 20th century’s most important abstractionists.
Details
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Artist: Yun Hyong-keun
Publication Date: 2019
ISBN: 9783775745819
Retail: $60
Status: Not Available
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 in | 22 x 28 cm
Pages: 160
Reproductions: 110 color
Artist and Contributors
Yun Hyong-keun
Yun Hyong-keun’s (1928–2007) signature abstract compositions engaged and transcended Eastern and Western art movements and visual traditions, establishing him as one of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century. He is the most prominent figure associated with the Dansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) movement, a group of influential Korean artists from the 1960s and 1970s who experimented with the physical properties of painting and prioritized technique and process.
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