㈜ KAR (Korea Art Revelation Co., Ltd.) 은

저평가된 국내의 작가들 발굴 및 조명, 국제 미술계에

맞짱 뜰 수 있는 작가들 발굴 및 조명, 국제 미술시장

개척 및 진출을 지향하고자 설립되었습니다.

이를 위해 ㈜ KAR은 gallery R과 출판사 KAR을

운영하고자 합니다. gallery R은 2022년 2월 성수동에

개관하였습니다. gallery R은 국내의 역량 있는

작가들의 개인전은 물론 작가들의 작품세계로 한 걸음 더

들어갈 수 있는 일종의 ‘전자-도록 (digital-catalogue)’

을 발행합니다.

출판사 KAR은 gallery R에서 지원하는 작가들의 개인

‘전자-도록’을 발행하고 있습니다. 출판사 KAR이

발행하는 ‘전자-도록’ 은 국내 온라인 서점들

(예스24, 교보문고, 알라딘, 밀리의 서재) 에서 소장 가능합니다.

KAR (Korea Art Revelation, Co Ltd.) has been

established to introduce Korean artists to

global art communities since 2021. To facilitate

its goals, KAR opened Gallery R, R stands for

"Revelation", and a publishing agency which

focuses on e-books of Korean artists. So far,

KAR has been published 18 e-books. Those

e-books are the "firsts" of its kinds in Korean

art market and several of them quickly became

best and steady sellers. Besides its exhibitions,

Gallery R also introduce several new business

practices which include a "public" pricing policy

on its exhibitions. Since a very few galleries in

Korea are incorporated, Gallery R's reform-

oriented practices have been welcomed by

various Korean art communities.

Gallery R is supervised by curator Byoung-hak

RYU who graduated from Staatliche Akademie

der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart, Germany, and

has been working as an art critic in Korea since

1991. Major exhibitions by curator Ryu are as

follows; Yun Hyong-keun's solo exhibition of

‘Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen’ in

1997, 'Subway project' of ‘mediacity_seoul’

hosted by Seoul in 2000, Busan Biennale Sea

Art Festival in 2006. Ryu is also the author

of more than 50 books and e-books, including

<Positions of Lee Ufan>(Cineworld) in 1994,

<The frame is better than the picture>

(Kumho Museum of Art) in 1998, <This is the

Korean painting> (Artbooks) in 2002. Ryu

received the German IG Metall Prize in 1990,

and the Presidential Art Prize by then South

Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in 2008.