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Blum & Poe is pleased to present a solo exhibition of ink on paper works by Kwon Young-woo, one of the founding figures of Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome painting movement of the 1970s. This is Kwon’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first solo presentation in Japan.

Schooled in ink-painting traditions, Kwon forged a new direction in the 1960s by abandoning the use of ink and scratching the surface of the delicate, multilayered hanji paper with his fingernails, creating all-over compositions of rips that emphasized the primacy of the ground. For Kwon, paper, like ink or …