이희춘 展
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우진문화공간
2014. 5. 8(목) ▶ 2014. 5. 14(수)
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Lee Hie-chun, Life Communing with Nature
By Park Young-taek, Kyonggi University Professor & Art Critic
Man and nature are in harmony and trees and flowers, birds and animals, coexist in Lee Hie-chun’swork. The viewer may relish gentle, extravagant hues blooming like dazzling flowers. Lively organisms are busy in gestures, and flowers spreading from the earth are messy and overflowing. What he presents in his painting is a happy state. Traditional Eastern and Western art often displays a hypothesis of happy icons and paradise: Oriental figure and landscape painting explicitly presents such happy situations. This genre of painting demonstrates enormous nature and the world full of countless life-forms, and the bodies of those contemplating the universe and dwelling in retirement. This painting represents extreme happiness and joy. Humans are not alone but are bound up with nature.
Lee’s works are products of an intuitive understanding of the object, not immediate depiction. He captures floating images with audacious brushwork, revealing the traces of the body’s active conduct. The purity of his expressive conduct and attempts to transcend mundane emotion and reason with this conduct harks back to the expressive principle of action painting and surrealist automatism. What we meet first of all are the traces of his body, gestures, and breath. He shows unintentionally vivid, lively brush strokes. His paintings - realized with water-based acrylic paint and calligraphic brushstrokes - are replete with spirituality. They attractively represent the spirituality of images, the magical quality of colors, and the power of icons.
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The taste and flavor of unworldliness, dwelling in retirement and seclusion, found inliterati painting, permeate in his painting. A variety of icons and colors discovered in folk painting are applied to the atmosphere. Lee creates his own composition by evenly blending various traces of traditional Korean art. Some spiritual aspects such as his view of the world and things dwell in his work. In his painting, all life-forms in nature remain in peace, harmony, and equality, and humans appear as a tiny part of nature and all things in the universe. He does not see nature and the object with the eyes of a human but with the eyes of plants and animals, and sees humans with the eyes of nature. His work includes the system of pantheism and theory of dependent arising or origination of Buddhism.
All living things in his painting are in vitality and harmony. They repeatedly flourish, sing, leap, and bloom. His work is a visualization of eternal force and energy all living things have on earth. Birds and deer, butterflies and flowers, all plants and humans are beings living in accordance with theirinstinct. They follow the laws of nature, sustaining their lives. All life forms in the world are organically associated with one another in dependent arising or origination. Each life form holds Buddha nature. In his painting, all living things in nature appear equal and harmonious. They are harmonized, infiltrated, and metamorphosed as living things with equal spirituality.
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Lee Hie-chun’s Buddha head has the traces of paint and brush marks. Unintentionally rendered brush strokes are entangled with color. A face shows rich expression and minute differences. Lee fashions Buddha head with clay after treating as much clay as he can address with his hands. The face appears ideal and modest. The form appears simple and modest as a result of restrained expression and application of minimum artificiality, but concentrates and enhances diverse religious imports. His Buddha head has a face realizing the stage of Zen in which there is no agitation or distracting thoughts.
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■ 이희춘은 전주에서 태어나 원광대학교에서 한국화를 전공했고 동 대학원에서 석사와 박사학위를 취득했다. 중국, 미국, 홍콩 등지에서의 국제전을 비롯해 서울, 전주 등 국내에서도 20여회의 개인전과 다수의 그룹전을 가졌다. 베이징 예술박람회, 중국 션전 수묵비엔날레, 뉴욕 아트엑스포, 한국 국제아트페어, 뉴욕 코리안아트쇼, ART.FAIR21(독일 쾰른), AAF Singapore(싱가폴), KIAF, 아트광주, Doors 아트페어 등의 비엔날레 및 국제아트페어에 참가했고, 중국 로신미술대학, 캐나다 퀘백대학교, 뉴욕 IBM, 우리은행, 전북도립미술관, 전북도청사, 원광대학교 미술관, 중국 관산월미술관, 전북인재육성재단, 전주시립도서관, 국립현대미술관 등에 작품이 소장돼있다.
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