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‘will’ plays with itself.” As such, I think Kim Youn-hee created her own world
of work with her will and her overflowing vitality, and she imparted meaning
and beauty to it.

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As can be seen in the form of a series of works by Kim Youn-hee, most of her
works were acquired through independent research, and she tried to share the
spirit of Minimal Art, Monochrome Painting, and Conceptual Art, which were
abundant as trends in late contemporary art. Specifically, her recent work
borrows the perspective on the relationship between ‘shape’ and ‘background’
from Barnett Newman’s monochrome painting through her own method. Ear-
lier, Mondrian defined the meaning of ‘Empty canvas’ saying, “If the person
who looks at the empty canvas does not conceptually see it as a painting, it
literally becomes a natural landscape, and by giving up its flatness due to the
nature of autonomy, it becomes an ‘Object’ located in the middle of a real
space outside the screen.”

Therefore, instead of giving up the ‘flatness of painting’, which relies on flat-
ness, Minimal art becomes a three-dimensional work that cannot be called
‘painting’ and ‘sculpture,’ and acquires ‘autonomy,’ which is only called
‘work/object’ itself. Therefore, as Takashi Hayami said, the surface becomes
a ground, and the painting becomes a figure. While understanding the percep-
tion of the flatness of painting and the perception of the physicality of canvas
in contemporary art, and the emergence of ‘all over painting’ and ‘automa-
tism’, Kim Youn-hee’s work seems to have gradually developed into ‘mono-
chrome painting’.

Painting has ‘flatness’ and ‘two-dimensionality’ that cannot be exchanged for
anything. Modernist painters become pure through ‘self-criticism’ that re-
moves the effects borrowed from other art media, and their purity is secured
by the identity and qualitative standards of individual art.

The following are monologues about Kim Youn-hee’s work.

“Art is the eternity of various factors such as being alive and dying, being able
to accept and not being able to accept, and having space and form. I think all
of these are the end of art.”

“I think my inner passion should focus on and immerse myself in one thing
like looking at fireflies and adjusting the focus of my eyes in a dark night.”

“As an artist, I want to remove all the conceptual images. It is interesting in
that the character and contrast of these two colors, black, which encompasses