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Stomach Landscape
Boc Su Jung2006/2011
Korean Art Museum Association
Seoul, South Korea
Clothing is the mask for the body. Our stomach is the storage for human desire and ambitions wherein lies the magical mechanisms that sustain our body. It is also the factory producing excrement. The lower black circle is the eye of life, the landscape of infinite universe. Dolls are the portraits of desire-bound humans.
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- Title: Stomach Landscape
- Creator: Jung, Boc Su
- Creator Lifespan: 1955
- Creator Nationality: Korean
- Creator Birth Place: Kyungnam, Korea
- Date Created: 2006/2011
- Physical Dimensions: w450 x h750 x d1020 cm
- Type: Installation
- Medium: Object
- Object size (cm): d.97.5x11.5
- 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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