Park Seo-Bo is one of the leading artists on the Korean scene today. He has lived through the difficult and then prosperous periods in the history of modern Korea, transforming one gesture into an infinite source of poetic production.

Park Seo-Bo is one of the leading artists on the Korean scene today. He has lived through the difficult and then prosperous periods in the history of modern Korea, transforming one gesture into an infinite source of poetic production. Sinuous lines like insignificant writings covering the indifference of time, his works have evolved into large monochromatic walls often streaked with regular lines like grids offering no protection from the outside world.

Sometimes, as the result of a supererogatory gesture, a micro-surface contradicts the general surface, forming an additional fold or clearing a smooth surface. You might think you were dealing with a door, but it’s immediately clear that it doesn’t open onto anything. And yet it speaks, or at least bears witness to the power of the neutral, that void stretched to the surface of time.

We don’t walk through these doors. And yet, as blind mirrors, they send us back not so much to ourselves as to the secret of the invisible in which all great painting finds its source.