Park Suk Won

Park Suk Won’s Accumulation series is an examination of the potentiality of an oeuvre, hence seeking harmony between men and nature. Throughout the Accumulation series from the 1980s, employing the method of “abstract-cutting” and “accumulation,” he has prominently worked with nature-based materials such as stones and wood.

In pursuit of an unorthodox approach to his work, Park Suk Won has kept his distance from handed-down techniques. His methodology built a new flow of Korean abstract sculpture. In the absence of any representational image, he immerses himself in a simplified and abstract form of a sculpture, leading to the question of the existence of men.

The core concepts of “accumulation” and “repetition” also expand in Park Suk Won’s two-dimensional works. Embracing the tendency of natural resources or materials, he aggregates the Korean traditional paper, “Hanji,” vertically and horizontally on a canvas. Through the practice of repetition and re-assembly, he once again underlines the value of the pure properties of materials while expanding his philosophy to two-dimensional paintings.

^{Text courtesy The Page Gallery}