2025-2012 Way of Life
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| The way to heaven <25 S-1> 170x40x25cm stainless steel welding 2025 |
Park’s recent works: <The way of Life> series. |
The recent art pieces, such as <Way of life-triptych 2013> and <Life circulation 2013> and <Pray to the sky 2012-2013> are commonly composed of numerous small particles of sectioning cube steels. The expressed meanings of them are related in the rooms or days in our daily living situations. Such expressive methods are to suggest the individual labor of creation and mastership of completion in the series arts. To reveal time passing and each days importance or big-sized building in our megalopolis city living in contemporary life, the art pieces are created in the extended line of our civilization and far beyond time-passing past memories of the artist's.
In case of <The way of life-triptych, 2013>, the three sections show as follows: after to be tempted Adam(a man) follows Eve( a woman); loves each other and get married; and hold up his wife on his back. In the expression, the art works shows one of living situation of all humans.
There arise several questions: why all human-beings are codified to be married? Why all men have to love certain women? …and others. In the work Way of life-triptych 2013, you may see there are the circulating images of birth, child, youth, marriage, composing family, success and to be old.
The meaning of this is our Human's life routine. Despite the difference of each individual life, most of the living condition is as same as thus expression. In the work <Pray to the Sky 2012-2013>, after dedicate her heart, an Indian woman prays toward in the late afternoon. There arise certain questions: then, why she dedicates her heart and what is the subject to pray? We may think that the story is related in the Aztec Indian mythology to dedicate a living heart toward the sun to extend one day. The final creation (the fifth sun) occurred when the gods met and decided one among them had to sacrifice himself to become the new sun. One poor, humble god did this and became the sun. However, the sun hung in the sky and didn’t move. In order for the sun to move, it was necessary for all of the gods to sacrifice themselves.
Sacrificial rituals among the Aztecs and in Meso-America in general must be seen in the context of religious cosmology: sacrifice and death was necessary for the continued existence of the world.
In the work, just the meaning is coordinated with contemporary human-being’s way of living as the mother who dedicates her whole things for their family.
<The Way of Life> series suggests certain dialogues how we will see our given living. Well, the life is not always plain: sometime it may be beautiful and clear but sometime it comes us as a divine test. However, as is never easy, we can see it what is positive or negative; interesting or sad as well.
We could be just a temporary actors/actresses. In accordance with our translation of it, we are able to act differently in the stage. The given roles can be main actor/actress’s business but that of extra’s. However, in accordance with our view points, we can go various directions: to decorate it precious or valueless.
Park’s recent works suggest thus various situations: in case of <Single Line Circus, 2013> and <Obstacle Race, 2013>, they show our ways when we meet in our daily living difficulties; In case of <Bread and grape trees, 2013>, it is rewrite of an Aesop’s allegory <The Ants and the Grasshopper>, which is described as the growth of grape trees as the change season and the out line of the art works is described as the outer shape of regular bread. the art questions how we work to get breads —the importance of hard working in the summer season (given working time).
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이 작품은 인생의 순환을 상징하는 작품으로 작품의 하단에서 좌측으로 순환하는 여정을 그리고 있는데, 전체적으로는 지구의 모습이 배경으로 깔려 있고. 우측 하단에서 유년기(자전거 다는 모습), 소년기(책보는 모습), 청소년기( 선생님이 훈육하는모습), 청년기(데이트: 라틴 댄스 자세), 성년기(결혼), 중년기(세 명의 자녀를 둔 가족의 모습), 중년기(비행기 타고 여행하는 모습), 장년기(지팡이를 짚고 다니거나 서로를 도와서 걷는 모습)으로 표현되어 있다.
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| Life Circulation <2013-9> (Detail) |
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The Ant and The Grasshopper <2013-9>, 185x84x12cm, Stainless Steel & steel balls, 2013, |
Way of life-triptych 2013-10, 157x63x7cm, steel & stainless steel, 2013
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| Obstacle Race, <2013-11>, 160x98x8cm, Polyurethane pigment on Stainless Steel, 2013 |
이 작품은 인생의 여정을 상징하는 장애물 경기를 펼치는 순간을 나타내는 작품이다. 상단 우측에서 시작한 경기는 출발점에서는 기는 모습부터 점진적으로 일어서서 걷는 모습으로 변하며 길에는 파진 웅덩이가 있고 중간중간에는 훼방꾼들이 발목을 잡기도 하고 앞을 가로막기도 하지만 때로는 격려를 해주는 사람도 있고 결과적으로는 최종적으로 결승점에 도달하는 모습을 담고 있다. 여러 사람처럼 보이지만 실제로는 한 사람의 여정을 상징한다.
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| Obstacle Race, 2013-11, Detail |
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| Single line Circus 1<2013-1>, 87x125x14cm , stainless steel, 2013 |
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