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CHUN KWANG YOUNG
(B. 1944)
Aggregation 09-JL044
signed in Chinese; signed and inscribed in Korean; signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Chun Kwang Young AGGREATION 09-JL044 118cm x 92 cm MIXED MEDIA WITH KOREAN MULBERRY PAPER 09 K Y Chun' in English (on the reverse)
mixed media with Korean mulberry paper
117 x 91.6 cm. (46 x 36 in.)
Executed in 2009
Exhibited
Seoul, Korea, The Columns Gallery, Chun Kwang Young: A New Perspective, 2-30 September 2009.

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Lot Essay

The monotone minimalist abstraction of Chun's works may present to us as simple visuals but with closer investigation into his concept and medium employed, the viewers realize Chun's painstaking dedication as the patterns of harmony and conflict are crystallized into illusionism and expressiveness weaved together with his continuous ponder on reflection and search for the meaning of life.

Chun creates three dimensional landscapes in aesthetic likeness to lunar plane, where minute triangular assemblages wrapped in antique paper, collide, rupture, concave and open in various areas in dynamic action, demanding repeated viewing from the audience to appreciate its perceptually changing beauty that is analogous to the complex beauty of humanity. The accumulations are rugged and smooth, dark and light in unpredictable areas, yet hold a sense of constantly evolving yet eloquent composure as a figurative trajectory of Chun's life challenges, that is understood universally. The repetitive movement becomes an enactment for meditation, where Chun empties him self in every production of the triangular assemblage, hence steadily transferring his energy and poetic monologues into the wrapped component, tracing himself within a space and spreading to the infinity of the canvas, thus, becoming one with his painting.

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