Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Threshold: Byron Kim 1990–2004' at the Rodin Gallery, Seoul. This travelling retrospective of Korean-American artist Byron Kim is organized and circulated by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and is guest-curated by Eugenie Tsai. It surveys the artist's work from his early to most recent works.

'Kim's innovative approach to painting knocked down the distinctions between abstract and representation, two traditionally oppositional concepts, and it allowed him to work in the in-between space of the binaries of form and content, concept and sensibility, and the sacred and the profane...All of his works take the form of extreme abstraction in which everything has been crystallized but they, at the same time, contain rich contents, representing things in the world, revealing his deep personal histories, and exploring possibilities of a transcendental reality.' (Foreword, Ra Hee Hong Lee)

Artist's biography, exhibition history, and bibliography are provided.
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Onsite

Location code
MON.KIB2
Language

English, 

Korean

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

104

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Byron Kim: Painting in between Abstraction and Representation - OH Seunghee, 오승희

Introduction - Constance LEWALLEN

Between Heaven and Earth - Eugenie TSAI

Byron Kim: Colour as the Anti-essence - Anoka FARUQEE

The Local Colour of Shadow - Byron KIM, 김바이런

Generosity: A Conversation with Byron Kim, Janine Antoni, and Glenn Ligon - Constance LEWALLEN

Threshold: Byron Kim 1990–2004
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Threshold: Byron Kim 1990–2004