Walls: Between the Reality and Symbolism

   Jang, Mi-Jin(Art Critic, Ph.D in Esthetics)

  Choi began from the entity of walls, but recognizing the illusion of images, he entered into the spiritual dimension which exists over the actual wall by means of escaping from imagism.  That is, he has pursued toward a notional world by dismantling the meaning of 'painting something'.  

  Although he takes walls as his motif, his main concern resides in overcoming material reality and in reaching to the orderliness and free speculation applying the symbolic meaning of wall.

  According to his working manner, "subtract words as much as possible and keep silence as hard as possible", there would remain the pure forms of consciousness or sensibility and we only can notice various psychological moments from the everyday walls.

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