Sohn Paa 孫破 展
運 | Penmanship 5_146x113x11cm_acupuncture needle_2019
2020. 9. 5(토) ▶ 2020. 10. 25(일)
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構成 | Composition N3_97.5x123x11cm_acupuncture needle_2019
構成 | Composition N2_163x113x11cm_acupuncture needle_2020
運 | Penmanship 2_146x113x11cm_acupuncture needle_2020
構成 | Composition N4_118x60x10cm_acupuncture needle_2018
構成 | Composition N15_122x112cm_acupuncture needle_2019
Modern Art Gallery is delighted to announce its representation of South Korean based artist Sohn Paa. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Sohn Paa’s work this month.
Sohn Paa used millions of acupuncture needles to create incredible works of art. He needling the acupuncture one by one into painting or sculpture structure, creating his personal signature of acupuncture works. In his abstract painting, richly compositions build on vocabularies of calligraphy brush, Korean characters, geometric, and dispersion to arrive at a visual language that is uniquely his own. Sohn paa's major was painting figures & abstract art in university. He is interested in the human “Body” of pain & cure. He uses oriental acupuncture needles about a million needles for his figures. Opposite extremes play a large role in his works, for example, pleasure and pain; life and death; inside and outside.
駒 Horse_50x25x54cm_acupuncture needle_2016
書 Book_32.5x23.5x6.5cm_acupuncture needle_2020
集思瓶 Recalling_43x43x75cm_acupuncture needle_2016
Acupuncture is a very old medical art, Sohn Paa denying suffering would be a fear, the inside of pain and agony teaches him that he can stand this much pain. Therefore, he looks for wisdom to heal huge suffering through tolerable little pain.
In his sculpture, each acupuncture needle for medical treatment has been used to relieve pain with a little bit of pain when the needle is inserted into to person's skin. He called the sculpture series “The Museum” series, it presents armor, a helmet, a book, and a jar, which embodies the dual quality of weapons a protector and also the threats of one’s body. Within these symbolic items of a museum, he got the benefit of knowledge and at the same time, people should be paying attention to blind faith. His art all begins with the body, which enables him to focus on the labor-intensive work; his dominant states of mind, fear, and anxiety is expressed, through which it would lead him to new material forms. In general, metallic materials is enough to trigger fear and scary emotions, for its cold metal surface, but somethings it treats human pain, as seen in the acupuncture needles. Fear and anxiety irritate you when you are away off the feeling; when you are incorporated into it, that is not fear anymore.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Daegu Art Museum and Daegu Opera House.
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