Year: 2020
Medium: acrylic on linen, mounted on wood panel
Dimensions: 180 x 180 cm (70 7/8 x 70 7/8 in.)
Acquired from SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, 2022
The painting is filled with seven colors of light made from holographic paint. Several curvy fan-shaped lines like sand ripple marks of Japanese dry landscape Zen garden, are depicted diagonally on the canvas and form similar figures, providing an extremely geometrical impression. A perfect circle connecting the curvy lines is revealed in the center of the square-shaped canvas. Although it is obviously a circle, the viewer is confused about how the circle was constructed. This mysterious circle was created by a self-made tool. While the semicircles are composed as if they are about to collide with each other, the hologram with rainbow color effect is also reversed exactly at the border of the semicircular collision line. As the artist himself cites gold-plated folding screens and candy hologram stickers as the starting point of his idea, it is inevitable that he would have chosen reflected light when he tries to incorporate light, as well as temporality (movement) into his art expression. Just as time never stands still, the image of the metallic reflections in this work changes rapidly depending on the viewer’s position.
