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PARK YOUNG HAK

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Introduction of Artist
Park Young Hak, who draws landscapes using materials such as charcoal, focuses on the essence of natural forms through emptying rather than accurately depicting the landscape. The Familiarity and unrealistic images of his artworks catch the viewer's gaze.
Looking at his artworks with blank spaces, it is understandable that the overall title was , which is also the artist's will to focus on emptying and contain the elegant Korean customs like white porcelain. Unlike images, simple-looking artworks are never simple in their creating process. Park Young Hak makes a solid base by coating and drying the white stone on the paper more than 15 times. Through this process, the drawing paper is coated with an unchanging pure white color, the stone powder emits a soft light, and the paper becomes harder. On top of that, he expresses images with materials such as pencil and charcoal which are dry materials. These processes mean the artist's desire to return the artwork to nature through the use of natural materials.
Park Young Hak begins his artwork by erasing artifacts and scenery that he feels are unnecessary. Rather than using multiple colors, he focuses on the contrast between black and white, using charcoal and cotton swabs on the rough surface of white stone powder to create the depth of light and shade of oriental paintings. The charcoal on the canvas appears as strong lines, and is drawn as mountain ridges, valleys, rocks, trees, and furrows. At this time, the lines flexibly cross the screen, expanding or concentrating the gaze of the viewer. The charcoal, carefully divided by his touch, forms planes and is expressed as the sea, islands, and rivers. Delicate and small lines are drawn with a pencil and become trees and leaves blowing in the wind.
The artwork seems to be empty rather than filled with minimized materials and methods, and these landscapes sometimes feel distant from reality. His unique gaze at the landscape provides an opportunity for viewers to actively intervene in the artwork with their own imagination. His artworks contain the emotion and novelty of Korean landscape painting at the same time to the extent that it would not be awkward to call them "The Modern Shan Shui".
Park Young Hak wants to build a space for thought rather than transferring a huge nature onto paper. His artwork is a story about things that are not drawn, and is not a reproduction of scenery, but a place of meditation through the absence of form. He hopes that the viewers will also feel the good energy and healing he felt while drawing nature through his paintings.
Park Young Hak graduated from the Department of Painting at Cheongju University and its graduate school. Starting with Daejeon DTC Gallery in 2015, he held 23 solo exhibitions at Gallery Dos, Gallery Bhak, and Gallery Mano, and participated in numerous fairs and group exhibitions at KIAF, Daegu Art Fair, and Seoul Arts Center. His artworks are owned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju Museum of Art and Cheongju University. He is actively continuing his life as an artist, going through residency programs at Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art and Cheongju Creative Art Studio.

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