Seung Ho Yoo
Spring Breeze
2020

About the Item

ARTIST STATEMENT My work focuses on the relationship between ‘Writing and Drawing’. From a distance, it appears to be a drawn image but a closer look reveals innumerable minute handwriting strewn over. Therefore, my work is comprised of tiny texts but seen as an image as well. I began to create ‘Text painting’ due to the fascination with blurry brush strokes of Ink wash painting, i.e. smudged contours of Chinese ink on mulberry paper. Such interest towards blurredness has expanded to dismantling the borders between traditional oriental painting and scribble, brush and pencil, and uniqueness and reduplication. ‘Text painting’ is often composed of onomatopoeic or mimetic words. Piles of tiny texts such as ‘Shoo Shoo Shoo-(슈슈슈-)1’, ‘Eng Eng Eng Eng~(앵앵앵앵~)2’, ‘Ung~Ung(엉~엉)3’, ‘Ya~ho(야~호)4’, ‘Woo Soo Soo Soo(우수수수)5’, ‘Joo roo roo rook(주루루룩)6’, and ‘Ung-geum Ung-geum(엉금엉금)7’ together form into an image. ‘Echowords’, a term that refers to ‘imitating language’, represents my work. 1. Sound of wind, wave, or flying 2. Buzzing 3. Crying loudly 4. Yahoo 5. Rustling down 6. Sound of falling rain 7. Crawling About Seungho YOO’s Work F. Stella claimed that “what you see is what you see”. … It seem as if Yoo seung ho is saying that ‘what you read is what you see’. But at the same time he also seems to be saying that ‘languages and images are not the limited to be read and seen’. They are all reflecting each other and mingling with each other. Let’s enjoy the moment when the images and languages are overlapping with each other. But there will be certain emptiness within the activity. Languages will never be able to perfectly explain the image and image will not supplement languages. It is because you will only find traces of interactions and imaginations. Let us be satisfied with the experience of tracing back to the artist’s inner thoughts and intentions. Excerpt from ‘Chatty hands, soft eyes’(2008) by Soo-mee Kang, Art Critic

Creator:

Seung Ho Yoo (1974, Korean)

Creation Year:

2020

Dimensions:

Height: 11.7 in (29.7 cm)Width: 16.15 in (41 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Ink

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-