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Skyscape
Boc Su Jung2009/2011
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
The sky is an infinite canvas that can embody human emotions. It is embedded with human sympathies. Children recount from Monday to Sunday and the standing child calls for Sunday...it is a night sky that I once gazed upon.
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- Title: Skyscape
- Creator: Jung, Boc Su
- Creator Lifespan: 1955
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Kyungnam, Korea
- Date Created: 2009/2011
- Physical Dimensions: w430 x h300 x d820 cm
- Type: Painting, Installation
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Critic's Note: Jung Bok Su is probably unsurpassed in his sincere and unremitting preoccupation with the human body. To him, the body is a medium with which to translate the world, as it is also a subject matter. Since the late 1970s, the artist has produced several series on the human body, which are each product of a set of artistic styles. For example, the work titled, Body Landscape, was a reinterpretation of his work produced around 1985, which is quite an unusual working method in the visual arts, unlike in cinema or the music industry. The human bodies and faces in Jung Boc Su’s work reveal themselves without pretense, as an archetype almost. This archetype is constantly multiplied and gathers force and authority as the origin of a species—it harbors traces of man as a physiological and social unit, and the traces of all the scars from the struggle to survive within a collective system. The interesting aspect is that we can glimpse a soothing tranquility and contemplative ambiance within the horrid and intense glossy racket of bodies.
- Artist's Education: Hongik university. Seoul, Korea. B.F.A., Painting
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