Artist Ji Hee Kim Unveils Art Book Celebrating 20th Debut Anniversary... Featuring 250 Masterpieces and Unreleased New Works

NBNTV = Ban Jae-dong. The 20-year artistic world of contemporary artist Ji Hee Kim, who has expressed the desires and emotions of modern people through intense colors and glasses decorated with jewels, will be captured in a single book. An archive art book featuring approximately 250 works, ranging from early pieces to representative series, collaborations with global brands, and unreleased new works, is being unveiled.

Exhibition planning agency H Art Ent is exclusively presenting a premium art book celebrating artist Ji Hee Kim's 20th debut anniversary on the crowdfunding platform Wadiz.

This art book is a record that organizes the works and major activities released by Kim over the past 20 years by period. It is composed to allow viewers to examine the evolution of the artist's creative world by covering not only images of the works but also the creative process and the humanistic background embedded in the pieces.

Notably, actress Kim Hee-sun participated in the art book's directing. Kim Hee-sun took part in the production process, lending her support to the task of presenting Ji Hee Kim's works in an archival format.

The art book includes early paintings, the representative series 'Sealed Smile' and 'Trunk', and works collaborated with global brands. It introduces a total of about 250 works, including new pieces that have not been previously disclosed.

Artist Ji Hee Kim has continued her artistic activities focusing on intense colors, decorative images, and symbolic character expressions. In particular, she has visually expressed stories regarding the desires, emotions, and human relationships of modern people by utilizing glasses decorated with jewels and the facial expressions of figures.

The representative series 'Sealed Smile' is a body of work where such expressive methods are prominent. It consists of images that reveal emotions and the inner self by combining human faces with decorative elements.

In the subsequent 'Trunk' series, she expanded the themes and expressive methods handled in her previous work into different images and narratives.

Kim has also conducted various brand collaborations in addition to domestic and international exhibitions. She has showcased collaborative works with global brands such as Royal Salute and Maotai.

Her work has also been selected as the cover for high school art textbooks. This art book contains these exhibition and collaboration activities along with the artist's major work records.

The production team organized the contents focusing on the periods when the works were released and the flow of the work. They explained that the book was planned not just to introduce images of individual works, but to allow viewers to observe the changes between major series and the creative process.

Art director Jung Na-yeon said, "We contemplated ways for the emotion of encountering works in an exhibition hall to continue even after the exhibition ends. We wanted to create an art book that records the artistic world an artist has built up over a long time, so that people can unfold it again close to their daily lives and keep it for a long time."

She added, "Ji Hee Kim's works have the charm of capturing attention with intense imagery while simultaneously allowing one to discover new meanings when encountering them again after time has passed. We hope this art book serves as an opportunity to view the artist's 20 years as a single flow and to understand the works more deeply."