
ART INTERNATIONAL Zurich
14th International Contemporary Art Fair
Kongresshaus Zurich
Main entry: Claridenstrasse 5
CH-8002 Zurich, Switzerland
- 12 / 13 / 14 October 2012
11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
- Vernissage:
11 October, 6 - 10 p.m.
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The shift of names from Oriental painting to Korean painting and again to contemporary Korean painting reflects the change in traditional values. This process can be interpreted as a clash, fusion, or compromise between traditional and modern values. As a result, completely different views of form and aesthetic beauty and even new systems of appreciation have been combined, generating incongruous scenes. The vivid expression of contemporary Korean painting depends primarily on this thoroughly new tendency that cannot be interpreted from the standardized view of aesthetic beauty and rigid conventional ideas.
My work takes place in this context. Appropriating a specific image from the four gracious plants – the plum, the orchid, the chrysanthemum, and bamboo, I represents them in ink. In terms of material and subject matter, my work is quite naturally thought of as entirely traditional, but I presents another formative value that is difficult to embrace and for us to accept, if seen from the conventional view of aesthetic beauty and the traditional system of appreciation.
Despite the use of traditional materials and subject matter, I try to move far beyond the established framework and convention by capturing and expressing them with my subjective eye and in a contemporary feel.
B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University
M.F.A. in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University
Ph.D in Art Education, Seoul National University
SamSim Art
Responsible: Minjoo Lee
4F Cheonseok Building, 1698-3 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu
Seoul 137-070
South Korea
Phone: +82 2 534 16 93
CellPhone: +82 11 9256 06 06
Fax: +82 2 594 16 93
E-Mail: minart2@hanmail.net
Internet: www.koreart.biz