17/03/2014
Superior Gallery is representing exhibition to celebrate coming spring 2014.
Spring, when everything comes alive, is in full swing. We shed light on three artists who deal with natural materials such as soil, trees, paper and water.
The exhibition is composed of a living contemporary art history, Park Seo Bo with abstract paintings, Chae Sung Phil called a soil painter and Suh Jeong Min who creates unlimited grain of Korean handmade paper.
Artist Park Seo Bo is not only a pioneer in Korean contemporary art but also a well-known painter abroad.
As artist Park Seo Bo has already set the stone that shows the Korean Arts at international art markets, established artists such as Chae Sung Phil and Suh Jeong Min are able to take part in the international art industry.
Artist Park Seo Bo regards flat surface as a continuous research on objects. He shows various ambivalent relations by writing, erasing, covering, scraping, piling and taking out on canvas. He created his own remarkable art world through repetitive process of the solid and the void like a kind of asceticism for 60 years. His paintings are housed at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Japan.
Chae Sung Phil based in France is an artist to describe space of soil with soil.
The artist expresses the space of soil by applying and spraying natural materials including silver powder, soil, whitewash and water on fabric as various actions.
Although the materials look simple, they include five elements of the nature, soil, water, fire, tree and metal. The artist is trying to eliminate artificial himself within him through the most fundamental and rawest research in the complicated contemporary art.
His paintings are housed at city hall of Paris, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Bank of Paris.
Arist Suh Jeong Min who has already been recognized abroad first creates work by drying, rolling up and cutting waste Korean traditional paper repetitively. Since the artist deals with a piece of Korean traditional paper at least four or five times, about 5,000 to 10,000 pieces of Korean traditional papers are required for a work. The artist shows the concept of oriental reincarnation with piled Dackjongie and Korean traditional paper.
Those failed drawings are not able to be recognized as their original forms and become anonymous and unofficial cooperative work. The Korean traditional paper he uses creates unlimited grain and three-dimensional structure.
His paintings were invited to Venice Biennale Palazzo Bembo in 2013 and are housed at Jong Ie Nara Paper Art museum, Hauser&Wirth Gallery in Switzerland and Tween Tower in the United States.
SOUL TO NATURE_ Beauty of Korea
Artists Park Seo Bo/ Ahn Byung Suk/ Suh Jeong Min /Chae Sung Phil
Exhibition Period March 18 (Tue) to May 22 (Thu), 2014
Exhibition Space Superior Gallery , Superior Tower,
Daechidong, Gangnamgu
