Park Seo-Bo: The untiring endeavorer_MMCA seoul

Late-Ecriture

Mid-Ecriture.

Primordialis period
Giving expression to contemporary feelings of anxiety and loneliness during a period marked by death and irrationality amid mass slaughter and collective violence, this work lacks and identifiable concrete form and has been described as laying utter waste to established values with tis approach of negation.

Primordialis No.1-62, 1962

Hereditarius Period

Attempting to acheive a modern form of traditional aesthetics amid a societal climate emphasizing traditional culture and nationalism, the artist produced his Hereditarius series.

Early-Ecriture
Artist applied a white base to the canvas and added innumerable pencil marks before the paint dried. These work- materiality, spirituality, and the artist's actions reach a place of unity in the performative process- have been described by the artist as a 'tool for self-cultivation'.