CHOO KYUNG FIRE-ALCHEMY
The motifs of my works originate from earth, water, fire, and wind, the elements forming the world. Life can exist in Mother Nature thanks to these elements. Works on display at this exhibition are a representation of the vitality and vividness brought up by nature focusing on the motif of fire. These works are a figuration of the breaths or souls of living things through fire and flames.
Priming work is completed in acrylic paint after thinly applying stone dust to the canvas. Some unknown images come into being when paint vaporizes or flows in ripples. I burn hanji(handmade Korean paper) that partly covers the primed surface of the canvas. Fire generates a new world, flowing over the canvas when it combines with oxygen. An amazing world is created by this fire work.Thisis the world that is extinguished and created by itself or the world that is completed by itself like life. A new scene appears and disappears between the flames. This is a trace of earth, sky, water, and clouds. A canvas exists for itself, appearing as all things in nature.
An enormous flame burns the surface of the canvas and is reborn as an unknown world, moving beyond my intent. My canvas is a forum where my unconscious innate in my invisible abyss emerges through the medium of fire, becoming a second nature. That is the Peach Blossom Land or nirvana I have dreamed of. I judge my fire work completed in this way like the flame of life through extinction and creation.
2024 from artist note
Public collections
Seoul Museum of Art(Seoul Korea)
Seokdang Art Museum(Dong-A Universt Busan)
POSCO Art Museum (Seoul Korea)
Jean Art center (Seoul Korea)
Korean Art Bank, (Seoul Korea)
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan Korea)
Pusan Museum of Modern Art (Pusan Korea)
POSCCO Engineering & Construction Co.,Ltd. (Seoul Korea)
A Foundation Korea Total Economic Institute (Seoul Korea)
Korea Urban Development Institute (Seoul Korea)
Posdata Co. (Seoul Korea), Gapyung county (Gyeonggi-Do)
Gapyung Police station (Gyeonggi-Do)
Yabes Co. (Pusan Korea)
Cheongpyeong hydroelectric power plant (Cheongpyeong Korea)