Description
Nam Tchun-Mo (*1961) represents a contemporary continuation of the Dansaekhwa movement, a South Korean art movement that was already working in a radically abstract, largely monochrome, and increasingly three-dimensional manner in the 1960s. Through repetitive actions in a meditative painting practice, he creates a contemporary interpretation of „golbeop“ (骨法), a classical principle of East Asian painting that emphasizes the structural vitality and life force of brushwork. He organically traverses tradition and contemporaneity, craftsmanship and abstract form, physicality and spirituality, as well as personal memories and collective cultural experience. The central formal elements of Nam Tchun-Mo‘s practice are lines reminiscent of furrowed fields and elements of traditional architecture such as lattice windows and rafters.
„A Well That Never Dries“ is the second book about and with Nam Tchun-Mo in our program after „Beam Lines Spring Stroke“ (2019) with which we venture away from photography into painting and sculpture, a rare but very welcome excursion for us.
Nam Tchun-Mo lives and works in Daegu, Korea and Cologne, Germany. He exhibits regularly in Korea and Europe, mainly France,Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium.
