Soulscape

‘Soulscape’ is an attempt to build a space where your soul can find itself, its true shape and colors.

Satisfying his play instinct, the movement of his hand, where his whole body is carried, helps exteriorize all his suppressed emotions. Tearing papers, splashing paints, stroking brushes and rubbing hands, He let his soul go free and be transfused to the canvas. And there his soul is shaping its own space. This space is the expression of his body language, which demands no rhetoric.

Joy and sorrow, love and hatred—- all these contradictory feelings are liberating themselves and transformed into different colors. Dancing and fighting each other, these colors are claming their respective places in the space. At a stroke of thick black bars, however, they end up being melted away and become an illusion.

The black bars are the power of soul. They are you, me, tiny bugs, and all beings in the universe, freed from the limit of their surroundings.

Heungmo Kim’s works are not just the description but the catalytic diffusion of all his emotions in search of his soul. Without being superfluous, his paintings bring you directly and spontaneously to the core of his bare soul. And so the dialogue is being created between body and soul in Kim’s ‘Soulscape’.

The sense of stability in his paintings comes from strongly built structure and intimately expressed colors. His colors are his image itself and strong composition is the reflection of his ‘ Weltanschauung’, the way he is thinking.

Generally his works are full of vigor and vivacity as well as being pleasure to the eyes. Young and talented as he is , he will continue to surprise us with a lot more Soulscapes

Kyungsung Lee
Art Critic

Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art