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Round Olympiad sculptures From Barcares 1970 to Seoul Olympiads 1988,
1978
Moon Shin
Fine Art Drawings : ink
30 x 21 cm 11.8 x 8.3 inch
$3,757
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30 x 21 cm 11.8 x 8.3 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
Black varnished wood frame with glass
Artwork dimensions including frame
32 x 23 cm 12.6 x 9.1 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
This drawing for ‘TOTEM’, from Barcares, 1970, in wood, to Seoul Olympiads, 1988, in metal, is part of his series on the Moon Shin Olympics Sculpture we find in the MMCA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art de Seoul. His 25 meters monumental sculpture Olympics is erected in 1988 for the Seoul Olympiads and is still nowadays in the SOMA Open Air Museum of Seoul.
For this drawing Moon Shin (1923-1995) explains his sculptural work:
"Before creating my sculptures, I make a lot of drawings composed only of circles, ovals or semicircles and of lines connecting them together, they thus make up the fundamental matrix of my sculptural work.
After impregnating myself with these ideas developed for a very long time on paper, it is only once my drawings are declined and succeeded that I finally attack in direct size a block of hard materials in order to give these circles and lines volumes.
These volumes, however, have no precise meaning, they are not based on any real "image".
I only want these forms to come to life in the course of my work, that they ultimately mean "Life".
In almost all cases, it is after the work is finished that those looking at it tell me that it looks like this or that, for example a stylized ant. And it is for this reason that then I will call such of my sculptures "Ant", such other "birds", etc. "
These drawings will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition during the Olympics of the Arts. In 1991 and 1992, during international events under the aegis of President Mitterrand and the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, he was selected to represent France with his drawings and abstract paintings, during the Arts Olympics organized by the Lise Cormery Gallery , for the CNOSF, French National Olympic and Sports Committee, on the occasion of the 1992 Olympic Games in France.
This international event paid homage to and followed on from the Seoul Arts Olympics where the city founded for this competition a Museum of International Paintings and a Museum of Monumental Outdoor Sculptures, with guest artists from around the world to exhibit and represent the twentieth century art.
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For this drawing Moon Shin (1923-1995) explains his sculptural work:
"Before creating my sculptures, I make a lot of drawings composed only of circles, ovals or semicircles and of lines connecting them together, they thus make up the fundamental matrix of my sculptural work.
After impregnating myself with these ideas developed for a very long time on paper, it is only once my drawings are declined and succeeded that I finally attack in direct size a block of hard materials in order to give these circles and lines volumes.
These volumes, however, have no precise meaning, they are not based on any real "image".
I only want these forms to come to life in the course of my work, that they ultimately mean "Life".
In almost all cases, it is after the work is finished that those looking at it tell me that it looks like this or that, for example a stylized ant. And it is for this reason that then I will call such of my sculptures "Ant", such other "birds", etc. "
These drawings will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition during the Olympics of the Arts. In 1991 and 1992, during international events under the aegis of President Mitterrand and the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, he was selected to represent France with his drawings and abstract paintings, during the Arts Olympics organized by the Lise Cormery Gallery , for the CNOSF, French National Olympic and Sports Committee, on the occasion of the 1992 Olympic Games in France.
This international event paid homage to and followed on from the Seoul Arts Olympics where the city founded for this competition a Museum of International Paintings and a Museum of Monumental Outdoor Sculptures, with guest artists from around the world to exhibit and represent the twentieth century art.
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Moon Shin (1923-1995) was a South Korean painter and sculptor. He settled in Paris in the 70's with Lia Grambihler who owned her art Gallery in Latin District. She changes his artistic life, by convincing to give up his figurative painting career in order to work into abstraction. Thus and thanks to Lia's work, investment and protection he became recognized as an international artist. He goes back to South Korea in the 80's and Moon Shin Museum will be inaugurated in 1994 in the town of Masan. His art works are in many international public collections and in Seoul Museums. He belongs to the South Korean Selection of Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee in 1991 and 1992 in Paris. It was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul where Moon Shin represented South Korea with his monumental sculptures we can still admire today. The 1988 Seoul Art Olympiads with its sculpture and painting museums created for the event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century was the idea of Lia Grambihler in order to promote South Korean art at the international level. Her visionary prospective was successful.
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