Artist Note

Find "Epiphany"   

It's summer now that the acacia has lost too. In early April, I moved from Busan to Seoul for the first time in 21 years and met the green forest of the mountain in front of my house. Azaleas dyed the mountain red and a feast of light-green spring began.

I met spring with my heart pounding and waiting and tension, and I was soaked in relaxation and happiness after a long time with a feeling of joy waiting recklessly for something.

Spring was also a joy. The tree showed us her transformation without saying a word. Cuckoos cry, doves cry, magpies cry, birds fly, seek food, love each other, raise their young, and live hard in the mountains. The writer quiets his world like that mountain. I'll have to show you. So that many people can feel freshness and joy.

I want to have a feast under the bright moonlight. I will summon those who are lonely or tired of life to show you the moonlight. Of course, anyone is welcome, even if not many people come to my feast. I still don't forget it, and if anyone misses it, I want to dance in the moonlight together.

Nature is polluted and hurt by the development of civilization and human selfishness, but I don't want to accuse it of further depressing the viewers. Humanity is lost due to developed civilization, and everyone feels a sense of crisis and is hurt in their own way. It is clear that it is the greatest challenge for mankind to solve.

We must all protect the 'pure' that is not contaminated under any circumstances. I want to present an ideal that humans dream of and want to reach. I want to draw some 'epiphany (Hyun)' that saves us and breathe a cool breeze into the human mind.

Therefore, the title of my work is "Where the Wind Blows," and my wife sometimes names my paintings "Free from Thought" and "Mureungdowon." The epiphany also has triangles, huge rocks, several stone mounds, dolmens, faces and apples. I want to fill my screen with the song of life.

Then what is my task. It's loneliness. When I lived in the countryside, I thought it was because of the environment, but I still feel lonely, so loneliness is like a shadow that follows me. Perhaps the loneliness is the driving force behind the work. The writer is a person who has to live with that loneliness for the rest of his life. I now knew that loneliness would follow me to the end of the universe and would never be able to shake it off. I drank when I was lonely. But now I have no choice but to give up. That you always have to go side by side with that loneliness. People also realize that they are lonely and only quietly swallowing the loneliness. I must reach a moment of extreme tension as I struggle with that loneliness, and I must fight another enemy, "Silence," that attacks and bored me before me, and break it and be reborn all the time.

Let's not cling to glory. Why do you draw. Didn't I just start it because I liked it. Seoul is one of the world's leading Megalopolis, and everything is centered here, expanding and expanding day by day. I also came here to escape the image of being an alienated local writer. But Seoul is full of local people. If you live in Seoul, you're from Seoul? It's a funny thing. People are competing with each other. I have no talent for transforming myself like a chameleon. Live with my shell like a snail. I don't want to change the shell. I will always dream and transform in that shell.

He came up to work full-time recklessly and carefully examined his work in the sense of liberation for the first time in a long time. Enformel work in the early '70s, geometric abstractions, repetitive forms of monochrome, experiments with objects, slides work in 1984, and installations of the Performance Sea Art Festival.... Since I am a modern person living in the modern world, I cannot help but accept the modernity and be naturally influenced by the times. However, he has tried to build an original world of his own, not imitation.

No one would have complained and denied much about life like me. I drew a picture to save myself from such conflict. I don't care about other people. However, human creations are meant to be seen by others anyway, and humans are clearly social animals, so exchanges take place on their own. So all I can do to others in this world is to paint silently, something that can please and distribute to others. I have to give all my strength to do a work that I won't be ashamed of even if I die. Now that I think about it, I don't think a lot of solitude and wandering has been in vain. Although I am in my fifties, the artist speaks with his work, so I want to show the world of my work that has not been delivered in the provinces.

My work so far is an extreme pure formulation by intuition. Literacy was excluded from the work and the beauty of the form, color, and space of the painting were pursued in order to get closest to the nature of the form. Creation of various new and mysterious spaces I wanted to be an architect who was able to break down the many walls we were trapped in and create a space where we could breathe.

Printed works from around 1986 led to works on natural landscapes from 1990 and were exhibited last year. The modern world is an information society, and mass transmission has led to the sharing of all information. I am working by adding human hand-crafted beauty to the clarity and accuracy brought by the printing press, and I freely selected and used anything as the background or content of my work. And now, specific figures, dolmens, apples, faces, and hearts have appeared on my screen. It is a symbol that conveys vitality to us living in a uniform civilization.

In the meantime, I've been drilling several places to dig a good well. Now is the time to strengthen my world of work based on many searches. It is time to dig up the ground, pick it, and make furrows to trim my fields. Still, my fantasy world doesn't wither. My energy is not cooling down and is being released hot into space.

Kim Myung Soo