Artist SONG KWANG IK(송광익 화백)
Artist Song Kwang-ik will hold a private exhibition at the Soluna Fine Art Gallery in Hong Kong from Nov. 22, 2019 to Jan. 9, 2020.
Hanji(韓紙) is a traditional Korean handmade species made from the inner bark of the native mulberry tree.
지물(紙物, paper things), 한지에 아크릴(Acrylic on Hanji) 60×40㎝, 2011
Within the exhibition, Soluna Fine Art Gallery(솔루나 파인 아트 갤러리, 홍콩)will present nine works that demonstrate the artist’s delicate technique in manipulating Hanji(Korean paper) to create sculptural-like paper works that can be envisaged and re-imagined as Asian and Oriental architecture.
지물(紙物, paper things), 한지(Hanji) 140×110㎝, 2017
◇On the Selection of Hanji
“Prior to 2000, I worked with a variety of materials and objects as well as oil paint, but experiment emerged. There is a saying in Korea that ‘stagnant water is bound to corrupt.’ I think as an artist I have to keep pushing boundaries until the end.
Hanji paper has been one of the greatest and oldest inventions of my own culture, and it is a very appropriate material for me to use in my art. The flexibility in paper allows it to adapt to a variety of changes and manipulations, which provides me room and freedom to work with.
지물(紙物, paper things), 한지에 아크릴(Acrylic on Hanji) 100×60㎝, 2018
I(서양화가 송광익,송광익 작가,송광익 화백,한지작가 송광익,한지추상화가 송광익,KOREA PAPER,宋光翼,ソン・グァンイック)want to reveal the spatiality and the refraction of light, the translucency and the penetrability between space.
Hanji made of paper mulberry is a material that breathe and whispers. It communicates. It is both visible and invisible, which is different than the modern paper that we are used to.”
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