Expositions
The work of the Korean artist Minjung Kim is a projection of the imaginary and the imagination. The encounter between East and West in the Minjung Kim's work is played on contamination, exchange, stratification, a "breakthrough" of signs and spots. Signs and spots that go beyond representation and give way to the vitality of the gesture. These are not landscapes, portraits or other items, but paper-ink-brush-combustion assembled all together.
Minjung Kim Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju in the Republic of Korea in 1962. Her exploration of the interrelationship between Oriental and Western techniques and conceptions continues outside the Academy. In her pictorial work - which she always executes on the floor in keeping with Oriental tradition, because both literally and metaphorically the floor is the basic support for all painting - Minjung tends to use increasingly concentrated watercolours in order to express effectively the intensity the colours contain. Furthermore, in her works made during 1998 on overlaid layers of paper, she buned sections of them to generate an effect of three-dimensionality, to provide the viewer with a chronological dimension, and to indicate layers of time symbolised by the layers of paper.
Minjung currently lives and works in Italy, France and United States.
The exhibition is part of the Silk Road International Cultural Biennale, a series of eleven exhibitions ranging from history to archeology, from contemporary art to current events, with a rich calendar of conferences and events.
Informations
Tuesday-Sunday: 4.00 pm - 10.00 pm;
Monday: closed;
Last admission 1/2 hour before closing time.
MACRO + MACRO Testaccio Combined Ticket
Adults: € 11,00;
Concessions: € 9,00;
Roman Citizens only (by showing a vaild ID):
- Adults: € 10,00;
- Concessions: € 8,00;
The ticket is valid for 7 days.
BOOKING:
- Groups (max 30 visitors): guided tours are available either for the museum and/or exhibition. A booking service is available for groups (max 30 visitors) for an additional booking fee of € 25,00;
Phone booking: tel. +39 060608 (daily from 9.00 am – 9.00 pm).
Booking for individual visitors is available only when purchasing online tickets. If you book in advance you can skip the line by going directly to the ticket window.
Online tickets: www.omniticket.it
Additional booking fee: € 1,00.
Info: tel. +39 060608 (daily from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm)
Promoted by:
Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Roma Capitale, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, Camera di Commercio di Roma;
Organization and Museum services:
Zètema Progetto Cultura;
Sponsors:
BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas, Unicredit, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena;
eni; Finmeccanica; Fondazione Roma Arte-Musei.
Ambasciata della Repubblica di Korea
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Flammini Group