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Untitled 0211024
Choi Byung-So2024.04.23 ~ 2024.07.16
Description of the work
- Media ballpoint pen and pencil on newspaper
- Location SIGNIEL BUSAN Lobby
Newspaper usually comes in a certain size, but if you use it for creating artworks, you can expand it as much as you want. While working with newspaper involves drawing lines with pens and pencils over and over again on a newspaper full of type, resulting in black lines covering the entire page and tearing it apart, working with a piece of paper used for newsprint involves the act of “erasing.” Then, what is erased? The act of erasing is the same for both – whether it is on newspaper or the original blank paper for newsprint, but while the former erases the print, the latter erases time. Choi said it is the work of erasing years of bygones and erasing himself. It is said to take a season to erase what it printed on it all. He demonstrates this artistic practice with his own life through endlessly repeated labor and time.
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About the author
Born in Daegu in 1943, he majored in Western painting in the College of Fine Art at Chung Ang University, and lives and works in Daegu. He was a founding member of the Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, the first-of-its-kind in Korea, and has had major group exhibitions at the Tokyo Central Art Museum in 1977, the São Paulo Biennale in 1979, the Brooklyn Museum and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul in 1981, and solo exhibitions at the Daegu Art Museum in 2012 and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne in France in 2016. Also, He was exhibited his work in the exhibition Korean Experimental Art 1960-1970, co-researched and curated by the Guggenheim Museum and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
Choi Byung-So (1943~ , Korea)
B.F.A College of Art, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
M.F.A College of Art, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea
M.F.A College of Art, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea
