Ki Chang HAN, Dangrim Art Museum
Birth
1966, Seoul
Genre
Painting, Installation, Photography
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Artist Ki Chang HAN_curated by Eung Moon PARK
The artist Han, Ki Chang creates a new and unique oriental painting style with a modernistic sense through the use of metallic mediums. This exhibition is intended to illustrate a new phase in Korean art through the reinterpretation of oriental paintings and conveying a message of healing.
His landscapes created with X-ray films, paintings of flowers and birds on light boxes, and the tons of staples reveal that he is in pursuit of tradition as well as modernity simultaneously. He creates beautiful images of flowers through the use of gradation of x-ray films as if in the light and shade of ink, and the use of coloration on photographs of fractured bones. As the artist reinvents the dynamic flowers from x-ray films, he transforms the pains and wounds into healing.
Han's work possesses an Asian identity and also he uses modern conveniences such as x-rays and light boxes in order to emphasize its Asian identity. His use of challenging mediums and the paradox, which transforms the wound into healing, would give the audience a refreshing jolt, while opening up a new prospect for Korean paintings.
