Historical poem created by
sensitive sounds or banquets of color.
Nam Su Kim
/ Fine Arts Curator
<³²Çصµ¿¡¼> 53 x 40.9 cm
From the authors last year
exhibition he wrote about the concentrated temperance and poetic sentiment
in a colored banquet. Summarizing the writing, author Eugene is a
talented prominent figure who established the reader's piece of work
in the Korean art gallery. The first reason is because he threw away
the superfluous length and explanations, expressing the only needed
presentations adding towards the higher artistic essence. Second,
when analyzing the techniques the hypocrisy of denotation, the subject
of nature, and the shape of the objects are used as means to sublimate
the way of its process. The third being tedious, usage of few lines
of compressed poetic diction
instead of the novels long explanations are felt as
its distinctive feature. Expressing its only essence completes his
work. The splendor of the magic of color, its free and powerful brushstrokes
movement, and energetic consistency of life is indicated on screen
as a whole.
However, after 5 years, the present exhibition shows the order of
beauty where the elements of plot presents the modern sensation of
poems. The revelation of the color and the idealistic separation of
space give the impression of an animation story. As if seeing the
brown forms of mass created by the spreading effects of ink-sticks
from an oriental painting, concisely reduced lines and surfaces of
mountain, village, and ricefield, river in the field in front of the
village, high technique and ways of expressing the village's image
with only few colors, shows the endless latent faculties. The image
of "Marado" in the southern end of Korea, the expression
of including the impressionism and fauvism in the image of the stone
mountain viewing the ocean, the humor and satire in the image of the
fishing village situated across the shore, shows the image of 'utopia'
where the poetic feeling soars and overflowing. As eternity passes
the silence of the nature's sensation or the difficulty in expressing
the echo causes to describe his extremeness of art
with passion and brilliant moment in time which seems
to be poured into a melting furnace. If we psychoanalyze his true
artistic character and his expressive techniques, he is truly at a
high level. The shapes and the freely flowing image portrayal, expressions
of his skill and originality, the magical color-study which includes
his artistic freedom, his incredible ability to manage the surface
of the screen, and his sense in verifying the potential energy in
his work all leads us to point him out as the leader in the painting
circles. Painter Eugene was mentored and led through his inner artistic
world by the great painter Ji-ho Oh and Jik-soon Ihm during his college
years. The completion of his thorough artistic energy led him to be
the great painter he is today.
In conclusion, the basis of his work leans towards the light and color
of the impressionistic style of painting. However his latest works
show clear and fresh characteristics of brilliant and dramatic change
of color, flexible and softly shaped mass rather than a sharp and
a clear image, and reasonable separation of space and increased level
of presentation of the authors spirit of mind is exposed. So to speak,
he is an artist suggesting of futuristic possibilities worrying and
troubled to create self-expression, self-language, and originality
of creation of self-portrait. Artist curator In Hwan Kim reviews his
work 'brilliant development of color, gathering of free and powerful
movement of fluctuating waves. Celebration of descriptive object approached
in flowing expression of feelings with colorful loosened shapes.'
He supported the artistic possibility of Eugene's work. This year's
works entire composition and distinctive feature of artist Eugene
is the originality of sufficient publicly of identification.
His works center image and topic lies in humanistic realization. The
reason why he often personifies nature is to show human beings and
nature's coexistence and the authors wants to overpower the universe.
As an artist this exhibition reasons as the settlement of his center
adaptation means. A big interest is looked upon his future change.