word and text - bicycle rider: painting by picture
by Gana Art Busan Location: Gana Art Busan
Artist(s): Sun-Tai YOO
Date: 12 Jun - 13 Jul 2013
Gana Art Busan and Moon Fine Arts will present the solo exhibition by Sun-Tai Yoo. With the theme 'word and text', the artist will show paintings and sculptures metaphorically expressed. Through imaginary created space and landscape of meditation, it will provide a chance to ramble in a peaceful time and space beyond the reality.
A blank space of work is filled with texts to find a difference between cultures and perspectives for the world. Furthermore, this process aimes to seek his artistic identity existing in a gap between Oriental emotion and Western painting technique.
Subjects in works are various but there is a bicycle rider in all works, who is a self-portrait of the artist himself. The artist says the rider mirrors him living between innovative thoughts and the outdated reality. Also those objets represent a symbol of arts. Through juxtaposed and painted things he has seen during his life, the artist tells what arts means.