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Skies hold veiled foresights, and Kim Hyung-dae likewise directs his gaze skywards. The celebrated artist is grounded in the postwar Dansaekwha group, a movement most often defined by muted monochromes, tactile surfaces, and meditations on all-consuming natural forces. Yet Kim’s approach presciently avoids inertia, trading somber earth tones for a prismatic palette, and weighted textures for airy, mesh-like surfaces. For all their contemporaneity, his developments stem from the vivid colors of traditional hanbok designs, painted temples, the tooth of woven ramie fiber, artisanal rake tools, …