The principal focus of Kim Hamisky’s work is the human face, following in the wake of artists such as Jawlensky and Brancusi, who constantly sought to exult the meditative and iconological aspects of the human form. The artist strips back every detail to reveal the elementary structure beneath, allo...
The principal focus of Kim Hamisky’s work is the human face, following in the wake of artists such as Jawlensky and Brancusi, who constantly sought to exult the meditative and iconological aspects of the human form. The artist strips back every detail to reveal the elementary structure beneath, allowing the work to express its true character through its original state : archetypal faces. Renaissance was exhibited at the 4th Biennale de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo in 1993.
Born in 1943 in Son Tây, Vietnam, Kim Hamisky arrived in Paris in the 1960s and held a number of major solo exhibitions at the Arnaud, Blondel, and Chimène galleries. In 1966, he was awarded the Arnys Prize. Initially trained as a painter, he soon developed a keen interest in sculpture. Hamisky is the son-in-law of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, whose studio was next-door to that of Brancusi. Throughout his artistic career, Hamisky has taken part in collective exhibitions: at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence in 1967, at the Maison de la Culture d’Arcueil in 1970, at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (MACM) in 1972, and at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1984. In 1986, a solo exhibition devoted to his work was held at the museum of Dunkirk. His works are to be found in the permanent collections of the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Hakone Museum in Tokyo, and the Apiaw Museum in Vervier, Belgium. Hamisky exhibited in Monaco on a number of occasions in the 1990s. He died in 2002.
