[FRIEZE 2025] LG OLED kindles Park Seo-bo’s nature-born hues at Frieze Seoul

Park Seo-bo (1931-2023), the late master of monochrome “dansaekhwa,” devoted his life to the “Ecriture” series — a meditative journey that shifted and transformed across half a century. It began in the early 1970s with “pencil-Ecriture,” inspired by the crude penmanship of his 3-year-old son. In those hesitant marks, Park discovered a philosophy of repetition and self-emptying. Three decades later, one autumn at Mount Bandai in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, he stood before a ravine ablaze with crimson maples. The vision pierced his grayscale world, and color began to pour into his canvases, marking the birth of “color-Ecriture.” The hues he carried back were not abstract inventions but drawn directly from the earth: the black of soot of an old kitchen hearth, the yellow blaze of Jeju Island’s canola fields, the purple-red of wine, the orange of ripened persimmon and the tender pink of azaleas. These vibrant, nature-infused works now take the spotlight in “Park Seo‑Bo X LG OLED TV: Colors Drawn from Nature,” an exhibition at Coex in southern Seoul, staged as partWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times