DOOSAN Gallery is pleased to announce Full of Love, a solo exhibition by Kyoung Tack Hong, whose powerfully colorful paintings capture daily objects like pens, pencils and books that fill the entire surface of the canvas. An artist-in-residency at DOOSAN Residency New York for the second half of 2010, Hong exhibited Pen series at his solo exhibition at DOOSAN Gallery New York in October 2010. In this exhibition he presents Pens 3 and his recent work. A painting measuring 8 meters in size, Pens 3 took ten years to complete since 2000.
Ordinary objects form elaborate and systematic balance in Hong’s paintings, transcending the lightness of their original material and transforming into organisms with an explosive sense of vitality. As they fill the entire picture plane with their dazzling colors without missing any spot in a way as if they infinitely multiply themselves, unfamiliar landscapes emerge. The lack of empty space and exaggerated size and colors in Hong’s paintings are an intense expression of the obsession that derives from reality, as well as a reflection on the modern people’s obsessive propensities.
