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Chung Tak-Young October 6 - October 10, 2000 Chung Tak-Yung has been a prominent avant-garde artist in Korea since 1960s. Over the years, he has developed a distinctive world of abstract images through his long experiments with spontaneous ink marks on hand made paper. In this exhibition, "In the Eternity of Time", Chung Tak-Young shows his idiosyncratic improvisational working style, spraying ink in dance-like motion on the wet canvas and scattering ripped papers over it in similar random fashion. Over this first layer, artist places a sheet of absorbent Korean paper and covers this layer with another canvas, then begins to rub on it with his hands, in the world of the artist, in a "contemplative" fashion. While his eyes are unable to see the creation of images within these set of layers, it is his hands that catalyze the encounter among such diverse materials as canvas, ink, paper pieces and rice paper. The artist states, "the instance when dried marks of the ink is printed on to the paper, I hear the forgotten sound of life and soul". He considers his working process of spreading, absorbing and drying of the ink, a metaphor for his work and life. He rejects any conscious intervention on the working process. It can be said that the work of Chung Tak-Young is a culmination of a chance meeting between the material, the hand and the action of the artist. Chung Tak-Young was born in Kangweon-do in 1937 and studied at Seoul National University in Korea. He has served on several occasions as the juror of prestigious Art Awards in Korea. He is currently the professor of the Eastern Painting at the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University.
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