Interest in Illusion, Coplanarity, and Traditional Culture

Through the activity of tearing paper, he brings back bis memory and experience the mysterious energy and atmosphere he experienced in the past. Paper, cloth, bamboo, and wind are accompanied as the media of reminding those days. For our ancestors, paper was not simply a place to write on. It was used as a medium and shamanistic thing calling the god. So was the bamboo. Therefore, the painting activity like this is a work being accompanied by not only a play but also delicate pleasure(a method of tearing and crumpling). It is his memory, a trace of the Korean existing culture he experienced in his childhood, and an exploration about the archetype of the Korean culture. In a complicated and multi-dimensional way, it embraces a debate about the coplanarity and illusion of painting by modernism and hyper-realism he learned, and other elements such as the extended method and display adding images and installations to the surface. Therefore, in Choi’s painting work, the main streams of the Korean Modern Art which have appeared since the 1970s are reflected literally and transparently. Such fact is very fascinating me.

yong teak Pak (Professor of Gyunggi University, art critic)