PORTRAIT_11
PORTRAIT_11
To myself, painting 'the portrait' means erasing those who are chosen and damaging them by scratching them, in a form of art. I myself know very well that the personal traits always change by the temporal axis and repeatedly appears and disappears. To certain extend, these undeniable changes are natural which does not go against the rules of entropy. To express concretely, they expands gradually to chaos. Hence, my work attitude is kept with cynicism yet I cannot sing the eternal beauty with my paintings. Then, the painting which is only allowed to me is either ‘to promote chaos’ or ‘to leave chaos alone’. As people can sense the much bigger destruction from the partial cracks of the Greek marble statues, not from the demolished stone pieces of ancient ruins, I acknowledge ' emphasizing chaos' with best efficiency is when chaos is in a form. Consequently, I have the desire to catch the beauty out within a split second when a form is in its destruction, and if it is possible, the beauty sure is located at somewhere within unexpected time line of destruction. With this series of work, the meaningless props are just another device to emphasize incomplete organism, and by this device, they head out much emptier place.
By Kim Buyungkwan