IDO PARK
South KoreaOn the boundary between reality and fiction, Park Ido surveys the universal human life patterns or circumstances around them and investigates the function of painting corresponding to them. By experimenting with a variety of painting techniques on canvas, particularly the three-dimensional and tactile texture of wax, layered and infused over oil and mixed media, he expresses complex emotions of anxiety and expectation in an autobiographical story amidst unpredictable changes of time. The actual thickness of the surface arouses a new inspiration by simulating tactile sensation and gives the fresh effect of perspective over the possibly monotonous plane. The artist metaphorises the role of the painter in the face of today’s radically advanced digital technology by emphasising his physical process of artwork creation and the experiential process of viewer appreciation.
What painters depict includes the objects per se and immaterial elements outside human visual perception, such as light, temperature, seasons, emotions and time. Thus, to transcend a thing into a theme, they tend to come up with ‘a probable phenomenal world’, where these invisible features construct themselves on a two-dimensional surface. Not only increasing a sense of abstraction, but Park Ido also embraces invisible factors, such as air density, humidity, and the intensity of radiation, in his practice to create a dreamlike ambience and depth by efficiently employing the layers caused by materialistic properties the dominant medium of this exhibition, wax.
Park Ido (b.1983) completed a BFA in Fine Art at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Dijon and an MFA in Fine Art at Haute école des arts du Rhin. He had participated expositions at Chapter II (2022), Incheon Art Platform (2020), Moran Museum of Art (2018), Chang Ucchin Museum of Art (2017) and more.
Text courtesy Gallery Baton.
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