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작성일 : 14-12-01 20:16
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'Kim Jong-Il's Funeral'전 작가의 글 (2014. 8. 29)
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“Kim Jong-Il was the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) from 1994 to 2011.
He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung, following the elder Kim’s death in 1994. He died on 19 December 2011,
whereupon his third son, Kim Jong-Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK) and succeeded him.”
(Quoted from Wikipedia)
During the process of this practice, I realised that this is not just a formal experiment. It was an act of self-criticism of my previous paintings, which were exhibited at Sobab Gallery in South Korea in March of this year. They were ‘history paintings’, which depicted the event of Kim Jong-Il’s funeral in 2011. The original works are made on large linen grounds, using traditional figurative oil painting techniques. I criticised myself on the formal elements of ‘history painting’ - big, oil, representative - which I have been interested in ever since I had entered the art world. In other words, I may hold an intention to argue that ‘this is not big, not oil, and not representative’.
The other thing I grasped through this practice is an idea of object making using my own paintings. Due to practicing in two countries, I do not currently have those paintings in Melbourne as I left them in South Korea after having an exhibition with them in March. Instead, I printed out the photographs of them to make small and similar sized panels. After that, I painted a red rectangular form with acrylic colour onto each photograph. As a result, the completed panels do not look like the actual paintings, but rather, are closer to well-manipulated crafts or objects. In this exhibition, I intend to show them as ‘a very simple linear form’.
The red rectangles blocking some parts of the images are a signal to the world. It is like a speech balloon in a cartoon. It is a sudden monologue or alert, while the spotlight is still on narratives. At the same time, it is an alert to the artist himself of the responsibility of reviewing what he is doing. (29 August, 2014, Shin Jaedon)
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