Galerie Louis & Sack
Seungsoo Baek , Korea
"Série noire"
Noire - Polystyrene relief and pigments on canvas, 2023 102 x 102 cm
Artist of multiple talents, Seungsoo Baek draws characters in ink on paper, sculpts, and creates installations; his stretched and prepared canvases welcome different materials: polystyrene, acrylic, or elastomer. “One must seek, strive to be reborn again and again, in order to be in perpetual motion and one day arrive somewhere. At the origin was the ‘black’, I love this shade because it has something ‘neutral’ about it. My intention is for people to approach my work without any particular expectation, simply letting themselves be imbued with a sensation. The colors, the nuances come later.” The originality of Seungsoo’s work comes first from its diversity: drawing, sculpture, painting; but also from the polystyrene material – always black – that he burns, cuts, slices to give relief to his canvases. From his Far Eastern culture, he has kept the repetition of the same gesture tirelessly: “I love to make countless drafts, then observe them until I see an idea emerge, something new.” This contemporary material, light and malleable, might seem in contradiction with an idea of ancestral work, but it is the result of Seungsoo’s research and multiple influences. The exhibition will present Seungsoo BAEK’s latest works, drawings, and canvases.
Solo show of Seungsoo Baek
From May 23rd to June 10th, 2024
The gallery
The Louis & Sack Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary Asian artists. Our research on the aesthetics and thoughts of Asian artists who have chosen France as their territory of expression revolves around two axes:
Japanese painters of the New School of Paris, from 1950 to 1970, and contemporary Korean creation of the 21st century, in painting and ceramics.
Gallery artists
Toshimitsu Imai, Hisao Domoto, Key Sato, Kumi Sugai, Yasse Tabuchi, Akira Kito, Akeji, Seungho Yang, Freeda Miranda, Yukita Izumita, Kei Tanimoto, Lee Hyun Joung, Akashi Murakami, Sung-Pil Chae, Seungsoo Baek, Sangwoo Kim
Galerie sélectionnée par Constance Guisset
