김한 화집 KIM HAN Show and Collection in MMCA
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Corée du Sud

“Geometric Abstraction in Korean Art” with 김한 화집 KIM HAN
L’Abstraction Géométrique de l’Art de Corée du Sud avec Kim Han
MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
MMCA Gwacheon 1F, Circular Gallery 1,1F, Gallery 1, Gallery 2

MMCA Exposition du 16 Novembre 2023 au 19 Mai 2024
From 2023-11-16 Until 2024-05-19
Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris, France, jusqu’au 26 août 2024
Lise Cormery Gallery, Paris, France, until August 26, 2024


Lise Cormery Gallery is showing an exhibition of Kim Han's works until August 26, 2024, presented during the Paris Arts Olympiads in 1991 and 1992.
Kim Han is exhibited until May 19, 2024, and has been exhibited since November 16, 2023 by the MMCA in the major exhibition “Geometric abstraction in Korean art”.
The 16-page MMCA exhibition catalog features 김한 화집 Kim Han on page 12, with his oil on canvas, “Kim Han, Interior 10, 1968, Oil on canvas, 148×148cm, MMCA Collection”, Show Catalog of 2023-2024 “Geometric abstraction in Korean art”.
MMCA Collection includes as well, Kim HAN 1975 quadriptych with four 121 cm x 121 cm paintings, and an oil on canvas 162 x 131 cm, dated 1967.

Geometric Abstraction from South Korea was particularly developed in the Post-War Paris School (1945-1999) when Artists from South Korea traveled to Paris from the 70s to the 90s to exhibit their works of art, more particularly in galleries on the Left Bank in order to make them known at an international level, whether in the art galleries of Raymond Duncan, Lia Grambihler, Tabacoff Scrive Art Studio, Galerie Art et Communication, but also during major international exhibitions organized by Ministers of Culture, including Lecat at the end of the 1970s.
The Paris Arts Olympiads of 1991 and 1992 also made it possible to present the excellence of South Korean art for several months with a large artistic delegation. This international event under the Presidency of President François Mitterrand, the Mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac, Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee, Nelson Paillou President of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee was organized for the CNOSF by Lise Cormery Cormery.
The Paris Arts Olympiads were preceded in Paris in 1990 and 1991 with Les Jeux de l'Avenir de Paris organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the CNOSF with the exhibition of the internationally renowned artist of kinetic and optical art, Asdrubal Colmenarez, from Venezuela.
The Paris Arts Olympiads of 1991 and 1992 followed the Seoul Arts Olympiads of 1988 where Seoul created for this occasion a painting museum and a museum of monumental outdoor sculptures, the SOMA Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, where one can still admire a monumental sculpture by Moon SHIN, who represented South Korea and Asdrubal Colmenarez, among all the invited artists, who came from all over the world to exhibit and represent 20th century art. This happy initiative thus made it possible to reconnect on a large scale with the ancestral tradition of the Olympic Games of yesteryear Greece where the artistic competitions were parallel to the sporting games, this in accordance with the wishes of Pierre de Coubertin, its initiator in the 20th century.

“김한 화집 KIM HAN was born in 1938 in South Korea.
Kim HAN is a Total Artist, both brains working deeply in order to master his Art. Successful thanks to his logical left brain, he obtains his diploma in Business Administration of Kyongnam University, Masan in 1964, then he decides to perfect as well his right brain, devoted to creation and emotion, and in 1967, obtains his Fine Art diploma, mastering Painting, in Seoul Beaux Arts, Paintings Department, College of Fine Art, Hong Li University, Seoul.
김한 화집 KIM HAN becomes the Master of free hand drawing as well as ink on oriental paper, and oil painting on canvas by hard working, repeating and repeating his art, until he is mastering the technical difficulties of free hand drawing by concentration and meditation, by means of hand and eye coordination, without use of any tools like rulers, etc. Thus, KIM HAN reaches the perfection like ancient Oriental Masters or Western Renaissance Masters did. Like them, his only treasure and tools are his hands and his brain, his universe is geometrical abstraction until reaching a Zen spirit.
김한 화집 KIM HAN is mastering the art of pure line, letting run his imagination and concentration and reaches the subtle line perfection by his very personal artistic genius.
김한 화집 KIM HAN COLLECTIONS MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Private collections France South Korea.
김한 화집 SOME KIM HAN SHOWS Deoksugung 1978 Twenty Years of Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art Solo Shows :1971 Biennale de Paris 1973 Myondong Gallery, Seoul 1975 Sao Paulo Biennale 1977 T'aein and Seoul Galleries, Seoul 1978 Twenty Years of Korean Contemporary Art, Seoul National Museum Modern Art1979 Gloritchi Growrich Gallery, Seoul 1980 Gloritchi Gallery, Seoul1980 Salon d'art sacré Art et Matière, Paris Galerie Jacques Casanova, Paris 1982 14ème festival international de la peinture, Cagnes, France Délégué de Corée du Sud 1984 Unesco, Paris 1985 Ujong Gallery, Seoul 1985 Séoul Paris 1987 Ujong Gallery, Seoul 1989 Space 89, Fukuoka, Japan.
1991 1992 김한 화집 KIM HAN belongs to the South Korean Selection of 1991 1992 Paris Art Olympiads, under the Presidency of French President François Mitterrand, Maire de Paris Jacques Chirac, Juan Antonio Samaranch President International Olympic Committee, Nelson Paillou President Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français, organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee CNOSF in 1991 and 1992 in Paris. It was following the famous 1988 Seoul Art Olympiads with its Monumental Sculpture Museum in Open Air and painting museums, the SOMA Seoul Olympic Museum, created for the event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century.”
Excerpt of “Post-War Ecole de Paris Art (1945-2000)”, Lise Cormery, Michelangelo Publications, French English, 2020, New Publishing 2024.