1. 어젯밤 페로탕 인스타에 안영일이라는 모르는 화가 전시를 LA에서 한다길래 궁금해서
YTN, LA뉴스, LACMA, Harpers 갤러리, 현대화랑 등 유투브와 이런저런 사이트 나와있는 정보는 대략 다 리서치했다
1934년 개성에서 1세대 서양화가 안승각의 아들로 태어나 도쿄에서 유년기를 보낸 후
1958년 서울대 회화과를 졸업했으며
서울예고, 사대부고에서 교편을 잡으며 국전 추천작가로 선정되는 등 국내 화단에서 실력을 인정받다가
1966년 미국 로스앤젤레스로 이주
1967년 Zachary Waller 갤러리와 전속 계약을 맺어 승승장구하는 듯 했으나 이혼, 경제적 곤란, 우울증으로 슬럼프에 빠졌다
1983년부터 시작한 물 연작을 통해 재기에 성공했고
계속 현지에서 작품활동을 했다
인간관계가 없는 은둔형 화가지만 부인 안소라야의 마당발 인맥과 양녀 세레나킴의 영어에 도움을 받았다
한국인으로서 미국에서 처음 개인전을 열었고
LACMA 한국관에 영구소장되었으며
2020년에 타계했다
2.
단색화란 무엇이며 그것을 서양인은 어떻게 이해하고 있는지 수용사를 추적, 연구 중이다.
한국미술사에 대한 좋은 영문 서적을 쓰기 위해
한국단색화 시대정신
캘리포니아의 태양과 바다
수행적 모습(수도승적)
YTN(2015.2.15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eQUg6EyNxc
한국인이 개인전을 연 것은 처음
현대화랑(2017년 전시)
https://hyundaihwarang.com/?c=exhibition&s=1&mode=past&op=&past=&year=&gbn=view&gp=1&ix=459
la18primenews: LACMA(LA카운티뮤지엄) 한국관에 영구전시
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCV9InOfys
UNEXPECTED LIGHT YOUNG IL AHN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxTN_R3kacY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZgL0nPgBk
ARTIST - YOUNG IL AHN PROFILE
LA THIS WEEK
Young-Il Ahn: Water, Space, California | HARPER's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofF8-mLzA
YOUNG IL AHN : NEW AQUISITION AT LACMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkmdz7rPGMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgB_w4qGRE
YOUNG IL AHN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgB_w4qGRE
ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS
https://www.perrotin.com/fr/artists/young-il_ahn/1563#images
Young-Il Ahn was born in Gaeseong, a city now geographically located in North Korea. As a young boy, Ahn moved with his family to Horikiri, northeast of Tokyo; in 1943, the Ahn family left Japan and returned to Korea when his father, artist Seung-gak Ahn, accepted a position as an art instructor at Cheongju Teachers College.
A child prodigy, Ahn was awarded numerous prizes as a student, winning national art contests in both 1949 and 1954. After graduating from the highly competitive College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University, serving in the military, Ahn eventually made his way to the United States, settling in Los Angeles in 1966.
During the five-plus decades Ahn lived in Los Angeles, the landscape, light, and atmosphere of California played a prominent role in his artwork. An avid fisherman, his painting practice was deeply affected when, in 1983, a motorboat he was operating became engulfed by fog off the Santa Monica coast. Unable to get his bearings, Ahn drifted on the Pacific Ocean; as he later recalled, “I lost all sense of direction. I cut the engine and let the currents take me.” When the fog finally cleared, Ahn’s experience of sunlight rippling on the waves was an epiphany: “I became profoundly aware of the surface of the sea being reborn in each and every moment. What I witnessed was engraved deep in my heart. From that day on, the sea lived inside me and I became part of the sea.” Ahn’s Water series, his paintings of the fragmented colors of water in motion, would be an ongoing concern for the rest of his career, even as he painted other subjects and motifs.
In 2017–18, with the exhibition Unexpected Light: Works by Young-Il Ahn, Ahn had the distinction of being the first-ever Korean-American artist to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, bringing overnight acclaim to his Water paintings. Ahn’s work was also the subject of two solo shows at the Long Beach Museum of Art, A Memoir of Water: Works by Young-Il Ahn in 2014, and Young-Il Ahn: When Sky Meets Water in 2017–18. Upon his death in 2020, ArtNews paid tribute to Ahn as a “trailblazing painter of radiant abstractions.”
https://www.koreadaily.com/article/8925638
https://www.koreadaily.com/article/8925638
2020.12.14
미주 중앙일보 김상진 기사의 부고 기사
미술평론가 패트리시아 살레는 안 화백을 화가보다 '명상가'로 칭하며 그의 작품을 높이 평가했다고 하는데
아무리 검색해도 찾아지지 않는데 일단 미술 평론가 patricia로 못 찾겠고, 안영일 + meditator로 찾아도 안 찾아진다 (물론 영어로)
이렇게 우리나라 소스에만 있고 원문이 없는 글이 발언의 진위를 의심케한다. 각주 교육을 엄격히 받아야한다 누구라도!