Promoting Korean Artists and Culture
ART BUSAN 2017
CHUNG Chang Ki is an « intimist » photographer, a poet using natural light to fuse & magnify his animal or vegetal subjects. He captures the invisible roads and emotions that shape our lives. Each work is a drama in its own right. He lives & works in Paris.
90 X 135 cm | Oil pigment print | 2016
60 X 90 cm | Oil pigment print | 2016
100 X 100 cm | Oil pigment print | 2005
30 X 45 cm | Oil pigment print | 2013
30 X 45 cm | Oil pigment print | 2013
“By identifying the objects of our environment, tearing them away from their functional utility and translating them with the means specific to painting, I developed an antibody language that resists the permanent aggression that the world exerts on me outside”
80 X 100 cm | Painting | 2016
80 X 120 cm | Photo Diasec | 2004
120 X 80 | Photo Diasec | 2014
150 X 100 | Photo Diasec | 2006
120 X 80 cm | Photo Diasec | 1981
“Working around the world, only chasing sun and very blue skies, I define my style with highly contrasted images, where colours and fashion dazzle over uncommon women and men, exuding a very distinctive and refined eroticism.
80 X 120 cm | Photography | 1996
60 X 80 cm | Photography | 1985
80 X 120 cm | Photography | 1972
60 X 80 cm | Photography | 2009
50 X 60 | Photography | 1970
“My emptiness is the threshold and my silence is the abolition of time. The inner part, in each of my paintings, is as important as the exterior. I create, points of vision towards a luminous exterior, but the source of life is in the dark”.
100 X 81 cm | Huile sur toile | 2004
81 X 65 cm | Oil on canvas | 2011
81 X 65 cm | Oil on canvas | 2011
81 X 100 cm | Oil on canvas | 1986
24 X 33 cm | Oil on canvas | 2016
24 X 33 cm | Oil on canvas | 2016
24 X 33 cm | Oil on canvas | 2016
“I will express myself freely without being bound by any ideology or form”
Yet it doesn’t mean that his work sprinkles spontaneously. Indeed there are innumerable basic drawings behind a single work, intentionally irregular images and colors are always dynamic and unconventional.
73 X 53 cm | Acrylic on canvas | 2009
73 X 60 cm | Oil on canvas | 2005
194 X 130 cm | Acrylic on canvas | 2008
