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Nam Ki-Ho Beginning on June 1st, Gallery Ihn will be showing an exhibition with recent works by the Korean artist Nam Ki-Ho. Following an abstract language of painting, his latest work is based on his memory of the past. The exhibition will be on view until June 15th, 2001. For this 7th solo exhibition, Nam Ki-Ho has created twenty new paintings which are made with various materials which give the works to reflect the passing of time. Each material has its own meaning related to time; he has used rusted copper plate to represent the passing of time and pieces of paraffin to depict events frozen in the past. The content of each work also has its own meaning in relation to life. The silhouettes Nam uses in his works, for example, the bottles, faces, fruits and figures, reveal an anonymous world of timelessness. The artist alludes to different ways of life by using these emblematic images of the routine, and the subtle finish of the surface further distinguishes his works which are defined by his reflection on the time and the memory. Nam Ki-Ho has contemplated again and again the cycle of life that lies hidden in everyday existence, on the nature of the relationship of the individual to daily objects, and the memory that the individual has of the sequence of daily events. Nam's consideration of 'memories of daily life' as a trace of time is an important key to understanding his work. Born in 1961, Nam Ki-Ho studied Art Education at Kyung-Hee University and received an M.F.A. at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has been shown several times throughout France in Salons and group exhibitions, culminating in a solo exhibition in Paris in 1992. Nam returned to Seoul 1993 and has held several exhibitions in Korea since then. He recently received fellowships from The Korean Ok-Lang Cultural Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation (the first Asian painter to receive such an honor). Nam will relocate to New York after this exhibition.
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