Kang Jinmo

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 강진모
Revised
Romanization 		Gang Jin-mo
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kang Chinmo

Kang Jinmo ( Korean 강진모 ) (* 1956 in Iksan , South Korea ) is a South Korean sculptor and painter.

Life

Kang Jinmo studied art from 1977 to 1984 at the Hongik Fine Art College of Hongik University ( 홍익 대학교 ) in Seoul , South Korea , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . He completed the subsequent master’s degree at the Hongik Fine Art Graduate School in 1987 and moved to Germany that same year in order to complete further art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student with Leo Kornbrust until 1993. From 1993 to 2002 he lived and worked in Mayen in the Eifel and then moved to Hattingen an der Ruhr , where he has been working artistically ever since. He is married to the German Koreanist Marion Eggert .

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Negative and Positive (2000), Durbach

Kang prefers to work with stone (basalt, black granite), glass or mirror glass and wood. In doing so, he developed unusual techniques, such as the carving out of sculptural forms from the interior of solid glass bodies made from glued glass plates, or the juxtaposition of forms cut out of stone blocks with the remnants glued together again. The main theme of his work is the connection of opposites (inside-outside, form-idea), especially the juxtaposition of natural and man-made objects, for example in his "portraits" of boulders and trees. This compositional principle was also incorporated into his painting, which was especially created between 2002 and 2008. Numerous sculptures by Kang are in public spaces in Germany, South Korea and Japan.

On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe , Kang created a sculpture of a turtle lying on its back , which was unveiled by the Bund Umwelt und Naturschutz in Bamberg in memory of the victims of the disaster.

Honourings and prices

  • 1984 - 1st prize, graduate exhibition at Hongik Fine Art College , Seoul
  • 1988 - 2nd prize, Chernobyl Memorial , Hof , Germany
  • 1990 - 1st prize, Kardinal-Wetter-Förderpreis, Munich
  • 1992 - 2nd prize, "Death and Resurrection" competition, Danner Foundation, Munich
  • 1992 - 1st prize, " Work-Art " competition, Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart
  • 2000 - 1st prize, Awaji Yumebutai Sculpture Park , Japan

Exhibitions with catalog

  • 1991 - Galerie Maria Wilkens, Cologne
  • 1993 - Galerie Hans-Jürgen Niepel , Düsseldorf
  • 1994 - Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen
  • 2000 - City Museum Mia-Münster-Haus, St. Wendel
  • 2011 - Kunstkeller Bern
  • 2011 - "back to the roots", Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen (group exhibition)

Web links

Commons : Kang Jinmo  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Bauermeister: Interview with Jinmo Kang. (PDF; 29 kB) Museum Biedermann, March 2011, archived from the original on March 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  2. ↑ Ute Bauermeister: The tree, its portrait and the artist. (PDF; 37 kB) Museum Biedermann, July 7, 2009, archived from the original on August 2, 2014 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  3. ↑ Christoph Maier: Chernobyl - Monument to promote the nuclear phase-out. In: evening newspaper. Abendzeitung Digital GmbH & Co KG, Munich, April 26, 2011, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jinmo Kang (biography). Jinmo Kang, accessed October 6, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kang is the family name here, Jinmo is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kang, Jinmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 강진모 (Korean, Hangeul); Gang, Jin-mo (Revised Romanization); Kang, Chinmo (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Iksan , South Korea