Park, Il-Soon
2002. 9. 27 - 10. 11

For this season of fall, Gallery IHN is having Park, Il-Soon's 7th solo-exhibition who is a professor of sculpture at Ewha Women's University.

Park's recent works shown in this exhibition vary from paintings to three-dimensional objects. The round-shaped pots, long piece of cut wood, and shapely cut tree-trunk.....those objects are transformed into mundane objects     from the woods with diverse textures by Park's hard and time-consuming hand-works. Park tries to keep its own nature of woods-shapes, cross section, or diverse textures and colors-and exclude any artificialities in her hand-works, so she adjusts the nature's fundamental truth. That is, when she uses artificial colors and synthetic plastics on wood, those artificial materials naturally turn into the nature without spoiling the own nature of woods.

Paintings on canvas are the landscape viewed through window and they are mainly green. The color is also shown by objects seated with paintings, as the symbol of the nature. The color on canvas is scratched by very sharp knife, so the painting displays the light and darkness in one screen. Round and smooth shapes of objects on the floor and rectangular flat paintings on the wall make a big contrast and create strict tension and rich composure together at the same time in one space, so they show deep space producing as a whole.
     
Park Il-Soon's exhibition gives an impression that it is a neatly composed ode to nature. Product of the nature itself is presented through objects and the landscape viewed though the window is presented though the paintings. Those paintings and objects are naturally combined and installed harmoniously in interior. With her works, we realize that Park ultimately seeks a level of the nature of idleness. Her works do not just metaphor the nature by organic figures but show its significant hidden world by leaving the nature as 'it is.'