Library 3, 1995-2001
Oil on canvas
71.2 x 89.3 in
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<Library 3> is an early work from the beginning of the ‘Library’ series. Fascinated by the modern elements he found in the Korean Chaekgeori Paintings of Joseon, he began the ‘Library’ series. This work was created over a period of six years and shows the artist’s extreme sophistication and paranoid integrity. The work is characterized by the depiction of an enclosed space, with bookshelves densely packed and stacked inside. The stacked books in the center form an altar in a temple, with a variety of religiously related still lifes around and above it.
Provenance
Artist Collection, 2023
Early 'Still life' Series
Early 'Still life' Series
Hong Kyoungtack began his series of "Still life" paintings in the 1990s
when he was in his third year of university. He realized that our lives
and the things around us are similar in that they are transient,
so he started painting objects made of plastic.
In the context of the accumulation of not only materials but also still lifes,
it shows an early work in which lightness and heaviness,
pleasure and pain, color and black and white, pattern and realism intersect.
Hong Kyoungtack began his series of "Still life" paintings in the 1990s
when he was in his third year of
university, and he realized that our
lives and the things around us are
similar in that they are transient, so
he started painting objects made of
plastic. In the context of the
accumulation of not only materials
but also still lifes, it shows an early
work in which lightness and
heaviness, pleasure and pain,
color and black and white,
pattern and realism intersect.
when he was in his third year of
university, and he realized that our
lives and the things around us are
similar in that they are transient, so
he started painting objects made of
plastic. In the context of the
accumulation of not only materials
but also still lifes, it shows an early
work in which lightness and
heaviness, pleasure and pain,
color and black and white,
pattern and realism intersect.
'Pens' Series
'Pens' Series
His art material, ‘pen,’ may seem too simple,
but the artist deals with modern people’s dual and
obsessive desires with allegories of skulls and dolls
appearing in the form of pen caps,
a stacked screen composition,
and the seriousness of writing mood.
His art material, ‘pen,’ may seem too simple, but the artist deals with modern people’s dual and obsessive desires with allegories of skulls and dolls
appearing in the form of pen caps, a stacked screen composition, and the seriousness of writing mood.
'Library' Series
'Library' Series
The ‘Library’ series was inspired by Chaekado
(fixed paintings of brush, paper, and ink)
in the late Joseon Dynasty.
The bookshelf, which seems to be closed, is filled
with smooth-texture books, single portraits,
and icons of traditional paintings.
The ‘Library’ series was inspired by Chaekado (fixed paintings of brush, paper, and ink) in the late Joseon Dynasty. The bookshelf, which seems to be closed, is filled with smooth-texture books, single portraits, and icons of traditional paintings.
'Funkchestra' Series
'Funkchestra' Series
A series of works under the title of ‘Funkchestra’,
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
A series of works under the title of ‘Funkchestra’,
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
'Reflection' and 'Speaker box'
'Reflection' and 'Speaker box'
Early 'Still life' Series
Early 'Still life' Series
Hong Kyoungtack began his series of "Still life" paintings in the 1990s
when he was in his third year of university. He realized that our lives
and the things around us are similar in that they are transient,
so he started painting objects made of plastic.
In the context of the accumulation of not only materials but also still lifes,
it shows an early work in which lightness and heaviness,
pleasure and pain, color and black and white, pattern and realism intersect.
Hong Kyoungtack began his series of "Still life" paintings in the 1990s
when he was in his third year of
university, and he realized that our
lives and the things around us are
similar in that they are transient, so
he started painting objects made of
plastic. In the context of the
accumulation of not only materials
but also still lifes, it shows an early
work in which lightness and
heaviness, pleasure and pain,
color and black and white,
pattern and realism intersect.
when he was in his third year of
university, and he realized that our
lives and the things around us are
similar in that they are transient, so
he started painting objects made of
plastic. In the context of the
accumulation of not only materials
but also still lifes, it shows an early
work in which lightness and
heaviness, pleasure and pain,
color and black and white,
pattern and realism intersect.
'Pens' Series
'Pens' Series
His art material, ‘pen,’ may seem too simple,
but the artist deals with modern people’s dual and
obsessive desires with allegories of skulls and dolls
appearing in the form of pen caps,
a stacked screen composition,
and the seriousness of writing mood.
His art material, ‘pen,’ may seem too simple, but the artist deals with modern people’s dual and obsessive desires with allegories of skulls and dolls
appearing in the form of pen caps, a stacked screen composition, and the seriousness of writing mood.
'Library' Series
'Library' Series
The ‘Library’ series was inspired by Chaekado
(fixed paintings of brush, paper, and ink)
in the late Joseon Dynasty.
The bookshelf, which seems to be closed, is filled
with smooth-texture books, single portraits,
and icons of traditional paintings.
The ‘Library’ series was inspired by Chaekado (fixed paintings of brush, paper, and ink) in the late Joseon Dynasty. The bookshelf, which seems to be closed, is filled with smooth-texture books, single portraits, and icons of traditional paintings.
'Funkchestra' Series
'Funkchestra' Series
A series of works under the title of ‘Funkchestra’,
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
A series of works under the title of ‘Funkchestra’,
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
a compound word of funk and orchestra,
are presented in color and black and white,
pattern (abstract) and realism, in sexuality,
closure and eruption, high culture and popular culture,
painting and design, religion and pornography.
