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▲ Traces of time-1819 72.7×72.7㎝ Mixed media on canvas, 2018
Dansaekhwa of Euichel Kwon
flatness & repeatability
Kim Hyoseon
(Independent Curator)
The Dansaekhwa of Euichul Kwon is clean and transparent as his appearance. And we face his beautiful painting.
He is the 2nd generation of Dansaekhwa artist, he makes his painting with print and letter of remains stone.
Dansaekhwa is the tendency of Korea, from 70’s to early 80’s. It emphasizes the flatness of canvas.
So we can compare it with western minimalism, but minimalism is the products of rationalism, and Dansaekhwa
is the products of spiritualism. It is based on the oriental view of nature, to return to the nature. So the
Dansaekhwa of Euichul Kwon also is dyed by spirituality.
As it, the Korean Dansaekhwa is similar to the western minimalism by influence of form, but the substance is ...
As it, the Korean Dansaekhwa is similar to the western minimalism by influence of form, but the substance is
different each other. The western minimalism is analytic and systematic, but Korean Dansaekhwa is intuitive
and transcendental, so it’s spiritual world is based on the oriental view of nature, to return to the nature. It is
Dansaekhwa from late 70’s to early 80’s that the stream of oriental conciousness is appeared well. So
Dansaekhwa is the first tendency not to go back and to connect with Korean traditional esprit.
The first character of Kwon’s painting is the “flatness”. In his painting, the meaning of “flatness’ is not
”to actualize of thing’s illusion“, but ”to show the conceptual method“. The first character of modernism is
the denial about the traditional art, the escape of the illusion of painting and abstraction. In Kwon’s Dansekhwa,
the painting ”flatness“ is about the self regulation, and self reduction of modernism...
