Joong, Kim En: Fragility

Pe Kim En Jong was born n Korea in 1940 to parents who were both Buddhists. His father was a calligrapher. He was the second of 7 children. He served his military service in Korea and began learning art. In his teens he went to Switzerland and continued his art training but also decided to become a Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, whose ranks also included Fra Angelico. The day he was ordained as a Catholic priest he baptised his parents. He has lived in Paris for 41 years where he has a studio. He art work at first began with canvasses and then he began doing stained glass windows and now his work also includes ceramics all in an abstract style following his unique calligraphic style. Now he is referred to as the artist of light and his art work can be found in buildings and churches all over Europe, and more recently in Korea. This video gives an introduction to work of Pe Kim, his background, his love of nature, his style of art work and interviews with various artists, poets and curators of museums in different parts of Europe all speaking bout his work. The video includes images of many of his pieces of work in different places.