He-story
Solo Exhibition of "Yongil Park"
Date : April 9 - April 29, 2015
Opening Reception: April 9, 2015 at 6:00 - 8:00pm
Chelsea, New York
Park was inspired by watching the wrapping and unwrapping of belongings and of people moving in and out.
Through these landscape series, Park has implied that people have lost their place regardless of their willingness
to move. In these series of pictures painted on the surfaces of cloth, the portrayed landscapes of life are distorted
depending on how the cloth is wrapped or unwrapped. Perhaps it is inevitable that a picture painted on the form
of the bundle looks distorted. Yet viewers’ minds are caught in the distorted picture. Is this because it testifies to
our own distorted lives, just as does those unrestricted sites of redevelopment?
Park employs the term history as He’s story, or a story told by him. Here, He indicates he and she, Park himself,
and us all at the same time. Perhaps all of us are descendants of nomads who traveled constantly. His painting
finds its suggestive power in the fact that its subject matters originated from real life and its surroundings. And at
the same time, Park does not indulge his ego, instead allowing it to expand into a realm of commonality in which
we all empathize.
| "He-story "
39.3" x 39.3" Oil on canvas 2015 |
| "He-story"
39.3" x 39.3" Oil on canvas 2015
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| "He-story"
35.8" x 45.8" Oil on canvas 2015
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| "He-story"
51.2" x 63.8" Oil on canvas 2014
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