박영옥 개인전

나의 작업은 실존주의적 철학을 기반으로 한다. 이는 우리 생의 과거와 현재를 아울러 실존을 찾아 나가는 여정이라 할 수 있다. 이것은 또한 치유의 과정이기도 하다. 나의 작업은 여러 번의 반복 과정으로 구성되어 있다. 캔버스에 두꺼운 마티에르를 구축하는 기초 작업 이후에, 칠하고, 긁고 다시 덮어내는 일련의 작업을 만족하는 지점에 이를 때까지 반복한다. 이 전체 과정은 매우 고된 작업이지만 동시에 나의 상처와 고통을 치유한다. 즉 나를 채우고, 동시에 비우는 작업이다.

나의 그림은 물론 나의 이야기를 담고 있다. 나의 작품은 화석화 된 과거의 기억이다. 즉 이들은 어린시절 하루 종일 뛰놀던 앞마당, 서해 해변과 수평선에 담겨있다. 거기엔 내가 즐겨 관찰하던 소, 새, 거북이, 물고기 등등의 동물들이 존재한다. 그러나 내가 사용한 소재들은 단지 평범한 눈에 보이는 존재 또는 자연의 단순한 소재로 이해되어서는 안된다. 나는 이 소재들이 나의 세계관을 표현할 수 있기를 바라고, 삶을 강하게 긍정하고 사랑하라고 이야기 할 수 있길 바랬다. 내가 사용한 소재의 일부는 길한 존재들이다. 다양한 문명의 조상들로부터 이런 길하고 신성한 존재들은 끊임없이 생겨났다. 이는 바로 삶에 대한 강한 염원과 의지 때문이라고 믿고있다. 그러나 현대사회의 복잡성과 높은 경쟁 때문에 사람들은 점차 불행하고 회의적인 관점을 갖게 되었다.

나는 사람들이 나의 작품에 묘사된 이미지에 반영된 우리 존재의 근원적인 에너지와 우리 자신의 진정한 실존을 느끼고 각자의 삶을 치열하게 사랑하기 바라며 작업하고 있다.

My work is based on existential philosophy. It is the journey of finding our own existence throughout our lives from past to current moment. It is also a process of healing our wounds. My work consists of several repetitive processes. After a primary set of work on the canvas where I build a thick matière, I repeat the actions of painting, scratching off and covering it back until I find it satisfactory. The whole process is a harsh set of work but it also heals my pain and agony, which fills me up and empties out at the same time.

My paintings tell the story of myself. My works are fossilized memories of my past. Those are in my big front yard where I used to play all day long, wide beach of the West Sea and its horizon. There are many animals that I enjoyed observing; cows, birds, turtles, fishes and so on. However, the materials that I used should considered neither as the way it looks to our ordinary eyes nor mere material from the nature. I wanted them to represent my view about this world and tell to embrace our own lives with strong affection. Some of materials that I used are considered as auspicious beings. Ancestors from various cultures have continuously generated sacred and auspicious beings to express their wishes and desires. I believe this is because of the strong will and affection to their lives. However, due to the complex and highly competitive modern society, people are getting very unhappier and drawn to skeptical views. That is why I am working with a hope that people could feel the ultimate energy of our beings and true existence of ourselves by reflecting them through those images that I depicted so that they could love their lives more intensely again.

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My work is based on existentialism. It is the journey of finding my own authenticity throughout my life from past to present. It is also a process of healing my wounds. My work consists of several repetitive processes. After a primary set of work on the canvas where I build a thick matière, I repeat the actions of painting, scratching off and covering it back until I find satisfactory results. The whole process is a harsh set of work, which fills me up and empties out at the same time but it also heals my pain and agony.

My works are from fossilized memories of my past. Those are in my big front yard where I used to play all day long and wide beach of the West Sea and its horizon. There are many animals that I enjoyed observing; cows, chickens, owls, turtles, fishes and so on. And there are potteries. There were a lot of them all over the house since I was very young. Including potteries, some of the materials that I used are considered as auspicious symbols. Ancestors from various cultures have continuously generated sacred and auspicious beings to express their wishes and desires. I believe it was because of their affirmative attitude towards life. However, due to the complex and highly competitive modern society, people are getting very unhappier and seriously drawn to skeptical views; they are losing hopes and losing themselves. Although it was the journey to find my authenticity, I wanted to share the feelings of the ultimate energy of our beings and true existence of ourselves so that people could keep on hoping and loving for themselves.