CHOI ByungSo

Choi Byung-so erases carelessly, but throughly all printing and margins of a newspaper and sometimes its backside. A thin newspaper is sometimes worn out and torn by his black-tainted eraser, and finally turned into a black, shining cluster.
Burned colors and material make us experience the burning itself. Are all fervent works in fact burning themselves? His canvas gives such an impression that it barely forms the entire format before scattering in the wind. prior to talk about the-ories of modern art, his work delivers the solemn and emotional sentiment which all burned things can give.

Having recently resumed his work after a hiatus of several years, Choi no longer always begins with erasing. It doesn’t really matter If there is a newspaper which can be erased, or only blank paper. His activity-erasing all characteristics, even the traces of the eraser – till nothing remains. His paper work, won out due to his repeated erasing, forces us to guess at the countless spaces created and disappear-ing under the black cluster. After the illusion of all space has been erased, the best illusion of art remains.

 

 

 

JEON WonGil
Born in 1943, Daegu, Korea

EDUCATION
1985 M.A.F in Kei-myung University, Daegu
1974 B.A.F College of Art, Jung-ang University, Seoul

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2015 arariogallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 ygalleryDATE, Busan, Korea
2013 nuovogallery, Deagu, Korea
SPACE HONGJEE, Seoul, Korea
2012 damuseum, Daegu, Korea
Gallery IBU, Paris, France
2011 Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea
Gallery 604, Busan, Korea
2010 Gallery aso, Daegu, Korea
2008 Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 The Sound of Things, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 arariogallery, Cheonan, Korea
Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea
2013 haein gallery, kyungnam, Korea
2012 Dansaekhwa of Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 Depaysement-blooming the city, Arko Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Qi is Full – Drawing Yi, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2010 invisible window, yfo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2009 Joint Show, yfo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Pulse New York, Hudson River Park, New York, USA