Doubt-Red Wall2
Dae Won Yang2008
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
Yang gropes for a balanced conversion in his outlook to embrace macro and micro viewpoints that incorporate his thoughts about the world as an individual in society. And here a doubt works as a concrete condition to find out about human’s inborn psychology and attributes by narrowing the distance to the world. The artist describes that the most doubtful situations are the relationships involving numerous people in society. Such diverse human relationships create systems of social structure such as customs, ethics, and regulations to sustain the relationships, and that becomes an interesting doubt.
- Title: Doubt-Red Wall2
- Creator: Yang, Dae Won, 양대원
- Creator Lifespan: 1966
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Yangpyeong, Korea
- Date Created: 2008
- Physical Dimensions: w700 x h1500 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Korean paper, glue, acrylic, soil on cotton.
- Critic's Note: The distinguished difference between Yang and other artists of his time can be found in the fact that his works form a clear identity with a pertinent combination of all the factors of paintings such as theme, composition and technique. There are three points that support this claim: First, the artist’s existential outlook influenced the social theme of his work; and secondly, by creating a figure with a strong personality called Dongulin(round man). His work has formality, maintaining the simple and symbolic expression of abstract painting, and he accomplished a unique technique based on his understanding of materials while maintaining the two dimensional nature of painting. Such elements continue to allow multi-perspective readings of the aritst's work. Yang Dae Won’s painting gives a pleasurable reading on contemporary art. Certainly his painting is far from those who just fell into mannerism and become technical paintings, or those who just mimic certain international art trends without any sense of sovereignty, and in this way, his work should be seen as very distinct from the problematic tendencies in recent painting. After accomplishing his own firm artistic language, he has now acquired a contemplative space to convey stories about our times. Indeed, true contemporary art that contains the spirit of the times is born when the artist reflects his perspectives about current time and puts it into his work in a formative method and defines it. If you can agree with the definition of the artist as a person who silently goes with the changes of time and naturally incorporates the images of the world as seen in the layers of his own experiences, Yang Dae Won is probably one of the most hardworking and sincere artists. He once mentioned that someday he would like to make a book with his work about the themes that he has been dealing with in his solo exhibitions. When the book is published, we might be able to see the images of the world that reflects the full spectrum of the artist’s life. Wouldn’t the result be a reflection of the artist’s identity and existence?
- Collection: Private collection
- Aritist's Education: Sejong University. Korea. M.F.A., Painting.
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