Yongil Park “He-story”
Able Fine Art NY Gallery
[Image: Yongil Park "He-story " Oil on canvas (2015) 39.3 x 39.3 in.]
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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.
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from April 09, 2015 to April 29, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-09 from 18:00 to 20:00