Space Travel 2006

Yi, Hee Choung2006

Yi led us into the infinite universe through his own imagination, which expressed various constellations, a spaceship and beautiful cosmic colors.

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Title: Space Travel 2006
Creator: Yi, Hee Choung
Creator Lifespan: 1956
Creator Nationality: Korean
Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
Date Created: 2006
Physical Dimensions: w1200 x h700 cm
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Critic's Note: There is a kind of secret rhetoric in the atmosphere that makes Hee-Choung Yi's work possible. He reinterprets traditional symbols and elaborately fills the canvas. There are familiar images like the mountains, fields, birds and butterflies; but sometimes they are seen as unfamiliar. The familiarity is our memories of hometown hidden within our mind, and the unfamiliarity is the vague shadow of our hometown that we longer visit. Hee-Choung Yi connects the familiarity and unfamiliarity on his canvas through a unique composition. Each color point gathers into a form and becomes the background. He links each form with the color section as if to embroider and connect the other parts of the canvas. The true nature of his formative languages lies in the connections. Hee-Choung Yi's reinterpretation of Korean symbols proceeds to explore existence itself, which is the origin of symbols. He does not simply define existence but inquires into the meaning of it. His skillful brushwork becomes a story connecting the abyss to the past and the present.
Collection: Insa Gallery
Artist's Education: Hongik University. Seoul, Korea. M.F.A., Painting. Kunst Academy. Duesseldorf, Germany. Maester Schueller.

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