Kim En Joong at Chambord: Colours of the invisible

Kim En Joong was born in Korea in 1940. At art school in Seoul, he was seduced by Western art. In 1969, he moved to Switzerland and found the vocation he was looking for in the spirituality of the Dominican monks. He joined the Order in 1974. In France, he discovered the light of Provence and Brittany. His first stained glass windows for the new cathedral in Evry, in 1998, revealed his talent as a painter of light in architecture.

Since then, he has built up a considerable body of work that...