Suh Seung Won’s “Simultaneity 17-601” (2017), an acrylic on canvas. Credit Suh Seung Won.
Suh Seung Won, a pioneer of the process-based Korean painting movement known as Dansaekhwa, or monochrome, started out with hard-edge, translucent rhombuses that evoke unreal architectural spaces. In the large-scale recent canvases comprising most of “Suh Seung Won: Simultaneity” at the Korea Society, those rhombuses have become overlapping bursts of diaphanous yellow and pink. They’re too square to read as clouds, despite the unmistakable glints of blue peeking through, so the mood remains otherworldly.
(Will Heinrich, “The Buddhas, Gods and Emperors of Asia Week New York [‘The Korea Society’],” NYTimes, 3-14-19)
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Suh Seung Won’s “Simultaneity 17-601” (2017), an acrylic on canvas. Credit Suh Seung Won.
(Will Heinrich, “The Buddhas, Gods and Emperors of Asia Week New York [‘The Korea Society’],” NYTimes, 3-14-19)
(c) 2019 JMN.
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About JMN
I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.