CHOI HyunSeok

This work began when I realized that there was something wrong with my feelings and reaction to record paintings displayed in a museum. The dictionary definition of record painting is a painting that realistically depicts a specific event and conveys its content visually. I wondered if the countless record paintings that have been made meet this dictionary definition. I doubted that we have exploited such record paintings to express our consciousness of authority in the frame of facts. This idea can be backed by reviewing the intent of the people who produced typical Korean, Chinese, and Japanese record paintings. The National Treasure of China No.1 Along the River During the Qingming Festival(Qingming Shanghe Tu) was painted by order of Emperor Huizong who had asked to contain the world. Japanese painters produced numerous record paintings to extoll imperialism. An example from Korea is Hwaseong-haenghaeng-do by Kim Hong-do by the order of King Jeongjo who intended to raise the authority of Prince Sado, his father. I realized that countless record paintings were made for the manifestation of authority. My work can be said to be an attempt to envisage another new potential in contemporary art by returning record painting, a taxidermic representation of authority, to its pure original meaning.

CHOI HyunSeok
Born in    1985, Gwangju, Korea

EDUCATION
2013    M.F.A, Korean Painting, Choong-Ang University, Korea
2011    B.F.A, Fine Arts, Seowon University, Korea
    
    
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2013    RAN(կ), Cheongju Art Studio, CheongJu, Korea
2012    Record Mind-Face up to the Reality, Artspace H, Seoul, Korea
    
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    NEXT CODE, Oreatlon Oenter of Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
             PUBLIC ART “NEW HERO”, Hannam-dong Blue Square NEMO, Seoul, Korea
             Artist – Death song,  HanWon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013    Autofiction-And resist the temptation of Korean Painting, Gallery is,
             Seoul, Korea
2012    HanJi Project New York, Rubin Museum of Art, NY, Chelsea, USA
             AHAF HK12 Young Artists VIP, Mandarin Oriental, Hongkong, China
             Occupation, Cheongju Art Studio, CheongJu, Korea
             VIP(Very Important Painting), KimiArt, Seoul, Korea
2011    ASYAAF(Art, coming to my life), Hongik University Museum of Art,
             Seoul, Korea
             Dongbangyogoi – Best of Best, Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea