Jang, Seung-Taik : Poly-Painting

 Jang, Seung-Taik's art starts from his deep interest in materials and colors. He uses oil, paraffin, wax, and recent plexiglass in his works, and all of these are semitransparent materials which hold light inside of them instead of complete transmitting the light. Because of this, painted colors on the light-holding plexiglass absorb the light as well as emit the light at the same time. These distinct points of materials and the fact that Jang, Seung-Taik's artworks are seen as a body of the color which they circulate and emit the light by themselves, make his paintings different from other existing canvas paintings and draw the neutrality of his vague atmosphere. In other words, Jang, Seung-Taik focuses on the materials that compose the painting and somethings that those materials harmoniously bring together, rather than concentrating on delivering some meanings by 'images' inside of the paintings. Thus, his works stand in the meddle of 'concrete painting' and 'something not painting'.

 The recent change of Jang, Seung-Taik's artworks is colors' diversity. Escape from always using milky and skin-color-like hazy colors, he expands the range of colors. He brings diverse colors such as orange, blue, red, and purple into the paintings and also shows the changes to softer images by revealing the process of colors' changes on the scene getting out of solidity and strictness. However, in this process of changes, the boundaries between colors are still vague, and he tries to represent human being who wonders for seeking something behind rather than showing some kind of absolute truth by breaking boundaries between colors. Instead of representing images, Jang, Seung-Taik puts his efforts on reviving the unique characteristics of materials, so he guides us to find our own inner light rather than our appearance as the light in his works fully hold.