Previously working as a cartoonist, he rose to global fame following a YouTube video in which he, instead of submitting a completed work for the 2011 Bucheon International Comics Festival, covers the entire wall of his booth with white paper and starts drawing to fill the wall with an improvised work of art. Kim Jung-gi became famous for live performances in which he would create a large-sized, impromptu drawing without any rough sketch. "After having done so much for us, you can now put down your brushes.
After finishing his last schedule in Europe, Jung Gi went to the airport to fly to New York, where he experienced chest pains and was taken to a nearby hospital for surgery, but sadly passed away," Kim Hyun-jin wrote on his Instagram. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we inform you of the sudden passing of Kim Jung Gi. Visual artist Kim Jung-gi / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul He is presumed to have died of a heart failure. He was 47.Īrtist Kim Hyun-jin, who has led Superani Studio with Kim Jung-gi, made public the death, Oct. Kim Jung-gi, a visual artist widely known for live drawing performances, died in France on Oct.
Artist Kim Jung-gi performs at a live drawing session at the Lotte Museum of Art in Seoul in this photo.
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