KYUNG Dalpio
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Dalpio's Painting - A drop, The derived world from spot
Leonardo Da Vinci sees extensive plain, rising flood, army, and battle from spots on the outdated wall. In addition to it, he hears dimly sound of church bell. From visual image to the auditory image, he sees and hears them just by the accident.
This story that explain the synethesia, is about the artist's imaginary product and Individual experiences. There is no one who can see the same things just as the artist perceived because people have different kinds of accomplishment. Spots can not be just the spots.
Spots get to wear another meanings to meet with people face to face it at the moment. The identity moves from nature, physical phenomenons to the semantic objects. Others, Marcel Froust tells stories about the experiences which remind of his past childhood when he bear bite sweets in the mouth the moment I suddenly sound and smell. Poet, Peak seok, reminds of his hometown just by seeing the Munpungji(door-papers) in Inn of the exotic.
Door-papers were the screen of media longing for his childhood memories. Even the seemingly has nothing to do with the meaning shown. There were some people who saw primitive landscapes of North American continent from a painting of Jackson Pollock's.
People who is searching for the meanings from physical phenomenon or natural phenomenon doesn't have any better imaginations or special humane study backgrounds. The world comes to guarantee the meanings when they meet the subject. The world to the subject huge text and book.
Nothing is free from the implication. Plans of Modernism toward the pure form which is free from the meaning, might be possible logically, but they are not possible in real. Gerhard Richter said, "The abstract that doesn't come up to any meanings is meaningless". It is very doubtful if the realization will have some types of meanings.
Human beings are the semantic animals. Even in an one small dot, they are searching for the origines of the world, buds of the existence, geometric elements and the universe. All the objects are placed on the spectrum of meaning and meaningless, semantic subject and the subject itself. From time to time, they have a tendency to be the character themselves. However, there are no chances to be reduced to the object itself or meaningful object.
Kyung, dalpio's paintings resemble the reactions toward the physical phenomenon or outer natural phenomenon. Sometimes things tilted to its properties and to look like some of the semantic toward the target, but the thing itself, or just a semantic reduction target (or the pure notion of a pure concept) only if there is left.
His paintings are focused on both subjective interpretation and objective interpretation. Through the pure form, eliminated true meanings, it emphasizes the Modernism formular logics. Regarding to the Reductionism, they are not decisive or strict. It is also focused both on the meaningful object and on the object itself.
Through the pure form, eliminated the true meanings, it emphasizes the Modernism logics. Gaps, rifts, breaks of special tension and semantic tension are derived from modern self-consciousness and post modern self- consciousness. So to speak, his paintings still have unsolved matters about its identification regardless of the small dots, silent dots, or speaking dots.
The world derives from one small dot. All of his art works is from waterdrop. The origin of the world and the origin of his paintings are sometimes the same expressions in an aspect that they are making forms to the object. Kyoung dalpio's painting implies the origin of world.
The concepts, came from one waterdrop, have great effects both on works and waterdrop's swelling procedure. Repetitive procedures imply modernistic conciliation and modern self- retrospective revolution.
In his painting, there are lots of waterdrop consisting of drawing buds. He is focusing on the coincident dots that waterdrop have made on the glass-window. He is dropping lots of waterdrop to the glass-plate.
Waterdrop of diverse sizes and shapes are painted on the glass-plate by the surface tension. Picking one of them he copies exactly the same shape into the canvas. During this process, the size of waterdrop is exaggerated. Just like the waterdrop, blue color painted paintings make natural figures creating artificial wind through mouth wind or compressor.
By trimming the waterdrop's contour, he creates expected figures. Through this procedure, the patterns are moved into the canvas.
However, we can not define that they are truly reproduced painting works. They are just implanted paintings from waterdrop. They have nothing to do with waterdrop.
Even though the patterns are coincident, the artist's work can not be regarded as coincident phenomena. The waterdrop's pattern itself is coincident, but it is the artist who made the chance of coincident.
According to the changes of size, the meanings change at the same time. We do not regard Natural colors as conceptual colors. The blue color and the waterdrop's color are even different.
The pattern's feelings are not same between when we see them on the glass-plate and on the canvas. His paintings are implanted from waterdrop pattern rather than the work of pattern drawing. It is the result of painting's instinct rather than the result of pattern's instinct.
There are still water patterns in the picture. Pattern-like figures and natural figures make unions. Artist's work gives suggestions to the world through the procedure and the painting's instinct. As we know, the patterns are atypical. There are no fixed figures.
Furthermore, it is even similar to the spots rather than the patterns once they are moved into the canvas. These atypical dots are exposed to all kinds of shapes and implications. It reminds us of geometric elements such as, dots sprouting from buds whose shapes are like fine joint.
Furthermore, it takes after long shape of plants like cucumber and eggplants, fruits, flowers, stars, and dots. It looks like natural phenomena, physical phenomena, geometric pattern and organic body contour. They are making some types of atypical system regarding to all possible figures and implications.
The most important thing more than anything else is that they are pointing to the non-crystalloid. So to speak, diverse shapes of waterdrop are in the basement of all paintings. Through this point, the artist is trying to realize the implied shapes to the appreciators.
The artist's painting, containing blue, red, green, and grey color gives both ornamental impression and suggestive figure. If the figures are returned to Minimalism, meaningless figures which imply significant concepts are shown in a sense of Conceptualism.
Art works that looks like flowers, butterflies, apples, atypical dots, represent us the unsolved problems of Modern Arts. They are pointing out the marrow of art through his own language. In flowing water, there could not be any fixed shape or meaning.
Even though his patterns are different from the flowing water, the shapes and the meanings are exactly the same. He might wanted to see the water through waterdrop patterns.
■ Kho,chung_whan