Dansaekhwa

These paintings depict no particular subject; what matters is how they are made. One action is repeated, and the traces it leaves become the work. Park Seo-bo's Écriture began with pencil lines drawn again and again into wet paint, and from the 1980s pushed ridges into damp hanji; Yun Hyong-keun let thinned paint seep slowly into linen and called it “Heaven and Earth.” The name Dansaekhwa was only proposed in 2000, as a way to group these works together.

Look closely at the surface first, then step back and take in the whole field of color.

When a canvas holds almost a single color, what else can you see?