Park Taehoon: Complex Park
Kimreeaa Gallery is pleased to present Park Taehoon’s solo exhibition <Complex Park> from August 22 to September 28, 2024. Park Taehoon combines the processes and elements needed to contemplate and understand the world on his canvases. His intense yet beautiful paintings present the relationship between individuals and the world.
'Complex' represents tangled thoughts and emotions, while 'Park', part of the artist's name, symbolizes comfort of nature within man-made boundaries. Instead of painting landscapes as they are, the artist begins by fragmenting and re-shaping the world he views. Beginning from specific areas and growing outward like spores, the elements of nature in Park Taehoon's works continuously intertwine and clash, creating harmonious landscapes. The artist, who densely layers the world he creates—titled 'Parktaeria'—in vibrant colors, works with the mindset of a clumsy tinker rather than a perfect designer of a new ecosystem. Amid the chaotic and complex yet harmonious landscapes, he incorporates fragmented information gained from his life experiences, discovering rich forms within. These forms are both magnificent and ugly, organized within disorder, mechanical yet natural, concrete yet abstract. Through the process of discovering these points of collision, the works become a denser and more lush ecosystem that engages the viewer.
The artist explains his understanding of the world through the story of ‘The Blind Men and an Elephant’. Each blind man, touching an elephant, has a unique perspective on how the elephant looks. The artist perceives this act as a creative way of viewing the world. Perhaps, in this vast world, we can only understand things with a perspective as limited as that of a blind man. We are encouraged to view Park Taehoon’s intensive paintings with a sense of tension and to gain a new understanding on both individuals and the world.
