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LEE Seahyun, <Between Red-187>, Oil on Linen, 334x745cm, 2013
LEE Seahyun Between Red-187
Lee Seahyun’s scarlet landscapes have a very strong visual impact, almost as if inducing hallucinations. The works are unnatural and unrealistic. However, push through the dreamy fantasy, take a closer look at them, and you’ll encounter rather familiar and very real landscapes. Nature that surrounds us, buildings, towns and events have fully occupied the paintings. His works are realistic and beautiful, yet somewhat sorrowful. This is because a single painting contains the four phases of life and all sorts of emotions humans and nature have. He reveals the violent perspective inherent in humans without any moderations, bluntly shows the wounds of history inscribed in nature, and displays a new way of reasoning about the East and the West, humans and nature. His works embrace the wounds of both humans and nature. |
