▲Line of though
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▲Line of though
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▲Organic-Green-2, 163x140cm, Gold pencil on canvas,
2012
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▲입체
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▲입체
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▲입체
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To draw, beyond the point of existence
-Ji Sook Park’s Exhibition
Many various colors embroider on the white plane like exploding fireworks. They expand to the infinite space with order and balance without any instructions or direction. The lines that may have crossed or met countless times on the white screen group up like stars to create a constellation. Dots, lines, shapes all echo vastly like the expansion of the universe. The artist Ji Sook Park’s drawing of this universe meets and parts infinitely to show this cycle of vast nature and the principle of life. This is the new work from an artist who have been working on life through nature, or organic image. This might even be a mutual understanding to the infinite space as Deleuze and Guattari mentioned in
“These are only distinguished by action or stillness, slow or fast. These are still not finite elements that have a form. And yet they are split infinitely. These are practical uninfiniactual’s infinite ultimate parts that are spread across the board equivalent to a uniform plate or a constructed board. And these ultimate particles are not prescribed by numbers, as they are always driven by inifinity.” (Gilles Deleuze/Felix Guattari, Copied by Jae In Kim,
In the space of the artist, the border between partial and whole; up and down; left and right; central and surroundings drifts off and disappears. Just as all things co-exist with each other’s energy and mutual agents that are connected like the Indra network’s ring, the artist’s screen is connected with visible and invisible networks. Just like the human mind.
The approach from Natural, Organic Lifestyle
The artist, Ji Sook Park who has been integrally maintaining the ‘full-vital organic image’, had been changing slowly for the past 2 years. From
From approaching to nature to understand human as a more fundamental entity, the artist has been creating and reenacting mostly botanical motifs.
Since the last work, the botanical motif’s organic image rose to life through various attempts to paint in oil, carved in acryl, pressed in copperplate, integration with the objet and it cycled to revert to another life. The artist wanted to express the fundamental life energy from nature to nature once again. The image being detailed or abstract, the fundamental energy and need was enough to cover the canvas like the passionate artist.
But during the recent few years, the artist has been giving some distance from the integral organic image and has been enjoying reasoning. Maybe the journey of life may have lured to do so. The artist opened communication with herself sometimes going through hard times with the integrated organic image. During that process, she might have heard the sound of ‘Sensing shape’ or ‘Flowing form’ within herself. Just as most humans nowadays do so, they return to their instincts facing the various sides and characteristics that consist themselves.
“As long as there is life, it will constantly change, expand, or revert to break away from the norm to suggest a ‘Sensing form’ or ‘Flowing Sense’ moment by moment. The artist may have already understood the principle of life by birth. All the artists work shows a side of life while refreshing every single sense and desires. Even through living things that are so still they look as though they are dead.”(2010Manuscript, Extracted from Ji Sook Park’s
In 2010, my manuscript regarding the artist’s work focuses on the artist discovering the senses while reflecting on herself. Later works show the artist attempting to communicate by various actions and though various images. The artist, yearning to deliver positive energy to some, and spread luck provides auspicious images to communicate directly. This act of consideration and sharing towards someone to find her identity is another ‘auspicious’ example.
Furthermore, every single organic images spreading on one area gives an illusion that it is above the clouds or under the sea and always shown a rich installation. (Exhibitions) In this open area, the independent images naturally grouped up to become a new one. The organic image that shows one image even to the root was mostly created in acryl, they stroll the vast exhibition area full with hanji. Just like a living organisms trace, it looked as though the fossilized botanical images were given life from the open vast sea. These still life form’s images, not restricted to a screen or an objet, was embroidered all over the exhibition to notify another world beyond the borders of time and space.
Accumulation of time, Movement of space, and Life Energy
Recently, I met canvases that surrounded the artist’s walls. 13 canvases around 2 meters were creating a plane of the artist that I have never seen before. Dots and lines, and the traces that cannot be understood is a still and active plane that looks as though it captures the floating energy’s moment when the senses are open. The artist drew and drew without any resting from her 20s till now. To the artist, drawing is like breathing. Nature or objet, or whatever, the work of the artists always contains time, is based on space, and is found with the life energy inside. To an artist, drawing is living like that. The artist’s drawing that is exploded and expanded with the floating energy’s motility without any restrictions is a trace of life and is stamped as energy of life. -PARK,NAM HEE (Art Critic)
PARK, JI-SOOK
2002 Ph.D.of Science of Plastic Arts HongIk University
1986 B.F.A. HongIk University, M.F.A. HongIk University
Present Professor, Dept of Arts Education ,Seoul National University of Education
SELECTED SOLO EXHBITIONS
2011 promenard (Gallery TLBU)
2008 Organic G08 ( INSA ART CENTER)
2007 Organic P07# ( HAKGOJAE Gallery),
Organic Image in Nature (ACC Gallery, USA)
2005 Organic Image in Prints (Seoul Arts Center)
2001 Ecological Similarity in Natural Structure (Gallery BHAK)
1998 Flight of Life (Gallery BHAK).
Lylic & Life in Ordinary World (Gallery MEE)
and over 27 solo Exhibitions.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Asia Top Gallery Art Fair ( Tokyo, Japan)
2007 Bejing International Art Exposition(KOEX, Bejing)
2007 Korea Contemporary Art Exhibition (Morocco National Museum)
2005 Global Art in Korea_Japan (Gallery Lamer, New York))
The 8th Annual Shanghi Art Fair 2004 ( Shanghi Art Center)
2001 Contemporary Art from Korea (National Museum of Myanmar)
2000 The Web of Life (Sungkok Art Museum)
and over 300 group Exhibitions.
AWARDS
2002 JAPAN Contemporary Art Association
2001 Exhibition of ARTEX-PARIS (Special Prize)
1997 The Prize for Young Artists of Korean Fine Art
WORKS COLLECTED BY Public Subscription
National Hyundai Museum / Samsung Museum/
The Research Institute of Diplomacy and Security / Korean Embassy in Sweden
Sungkok Art Museum/ Hong-ik University,
Museum of Contemporary Art / Lego Korea, /
Siemens Computer System/ Design House/ Dream Media Net
Daewoo Motors Company / Hyundai Mutual Savings Company and more.
