Kim Eull’s solo survey at OCI Museum, Seoul, 7 April to 4 June 2022. Around 700 works filling all three floors: salon-hung drawings, tables massed with hundreds of small painted figures, and a full reconstruction of his studio (the “Twilight Zone Studio”). The Korean title 《김을파손죄》 puns on 기물파손죄 (property-damage crime), the hammer as the show’s icon, drawing as breaking the frame. I walked into it on a 2022 day of Seoul galleries.
Grows from
Grows from Kim Eull (my own find) and shows at OCI Museum. The show that planted him for me.
Why it matters
(the door, mine to write)
Works encountered
My photographs from the rooms. I shot no wall labels, so this stays a walk-through, not a set of titled works. The two water-drop paintings that open the set, a blue gridded field and a raw tan board, are Kim Eull quoting Kim Tschang-yeul; documented on the artist’s own site, so the attribution is his, not the water drop painter’s.
