Artists

Kim Tschang-Yeul

Press release

Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present 'L'origine du vide,' Kim Tschang-Yeul's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 14 to April 12, 2025.

While Kim Tschang-Yeul’s work evokes tranquility, its apparent serenity is the result of a long process of transmutation. At the very beginning of his career, the artist’s Informal paintings expressed his obsession with bodily matter and fluids, themes that crystallized horror, violence, and war. Gradually, as seen in his sketchbooks as well as his most accomplished paintings, this visceral matter was transformed into a water droplet. Kim’s admiration for Francis Bacon, a virtuoso of representing flesh and wounds, emphasizes this duality: while Bacon exposed the violence of the world head-on, Kim Tschang-Yeul absorbed it and dissolved it in the theme of the water droplet. This contrast reveals all the ambiguity of his work.

— Louma Salamé, Director of the Boghossian Foundation