Exhibition Information

The Tree of Life
2017 han-ji on canvas 100x80.5cm

The Forbidden Fruit
2019 han-ji on canvas 53x72cm

Jubilee
2020 한지위에 수간채색 82x224cm

The Beginning
2020 han-ji on canvas 130 x 324cm

			Exhibition Writing

The beginning and name of life

Writer Kim Jeong-su talks about religious roots and words that are latent in his consciousness through his work.
The trees and birds shown in his work feel like the trees of heaven, and it makes me wonder if they are "the natural of pian"
The meaning of "pian" in the dictionary is the world of enlightenment beyond the Sabah world. To be named to the world of nirvana after passing away the anguish of this world or such a situation. It is written that it refers to an outside world that is thought out of the real world.
The strange irony overlaps here because the creatures of life shown in his work depict Christian creation and heaven but if you look at the deep meaning, it seems like he harbors something beyond the world of ideas.
Kim Jeong-su minimizes the use of brushes and only overlaps and  tears off the hanji to create shapes and colors. This painstaking iterative process would be arduous to reveal its form only when it is overlapped and detached thousands of times. Therefore, it measure his future work with a persistent writer's spirit that only he can do.

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Writer's note

Having worked on traditional Korean paper like white ink and reinterpreted the poetic atmosphere through "The Tree of Life- I see You> in 2009.
Most of my works, which earned the first Korean doctorate from the National Taiwan Normal University, are peaceful and lyrical in my thesis on studying the pictorial expression of "詩意氛圍" based on my creative work and related theories.
This is the reality of what the author of "I See You" sees in the recent "Life Tree" series.
Inspired by William Brake's poem, "One flower sees heaven in a wild flower", I look at nature in a slender flower and see infinity in my hands and eternity and heaven in a moment.
My work with the motto of 'Life Tree' is that one slender petal becomes a big mountain and a tree. There is a vast sky and grassland inside a small flower and small human figures become one with them as part of nature.
I breathe life into my work using paper as if I were blowing a hop. As part of nature, the paper pigments become natural through work. 
Having studied expressions of the most Korean things since I studied in Taiwan,I have expressed white, a symbol of a nation with a delicate sense of traditional dakpaper through pigments.
In particular, Halla Mountain and Mt.Baekdu which are symbols of the Korean people, are expressed as a series of works to unite the peace of the Korean people. I prayed for unification.
The work, which depicts the huge Mt.Baekdu like a flower, will bring together another '詩語' of paintings that reinterpret tradition with a modern sense.

One find day, Kim Jeong-su

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