Farming Season of the Civilian Control Line
Song Chang1986/1986
REAL DMZ PROJECT
Seoul, South Korea
Song Chang has long painted the landscape of division. He travels through borderline regions such as Paju, Yeoncheon, Pocheon and Cheorwon to paint the scenery that come under his historical awareness. To the artist, the tragedy of division in contemporary Korean history has always been an important topic, a persistent subject matter and eternal theme of his works. Farming Season of The Civilian Control Line (1986) is a landscape painting that shows civilian residents who live in the civilian control line area, a wartime operational territory, and soldiers who live there for a different purpose. The artist casts a message of awakening for the situation of the divided North and the South, which now feels almost ordinary. It is the artist’s warning against Korea’s remaining a divided nation.
- Title: Farming Season of the Civilian Control Line
- Creator: Song Chang
- Date Created: 1986/1986
- Physical Dimensions: 227.3x181.3cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- 작가 정보: Song Chang (b. 1952, Jangseong) has held a firm belief in his duty of approaching and thinking about social issues from an artistic perspective, and has practiced this duty through his work. He witnessed the consequences of postwar society and life under military regimes, and follows in the line of Minjung Art. He interacted with colleagues who participated in social life and was a member of “Imsulnyeon.” For 30 years after his solo exhibition at Geurim Madang Min in 1986, he has explored and painted with the “landscape of division” as his topic to depict the pains of war, tragedy of civil conflicts, and various related social issues. He has participated in exhibitions at many institutions including Seoul Museum of Art, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Art and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and his works are in collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Gwangju Museum of Art, and Ho-Am Art Museum.
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