Biografia
One of the most difficult things to do in painting, much less in any discipline, is to evoke humor. Distractions of the mind and body, debates of philosophers and aestheticians, politics, society, the passions of painters and poets famously vie for the artist’s attention when he is in the studio. Issues of format, process, style, the whole enterprise of making art and indeed all of ourselves as individuals, is put in the context of painting. What is the object? What is the subject of said object? How is it possible to bear all of this as an artist?
Heui Tae Yoon’s work looks at these questions but doesn’t answer- it doesn’t parody, it is not satire, it presents, perhaps, a gentle irony. Questions of authenticity, self expression and revelation are placed together in a witty confrontation between metaphor, symbol and abstract idea…Even style and its meaning to specific culture is questioned, the tropes of Western art and Eastern art are face to face. Looking at this work one see’s his dilemma: how to confront a reality of facts that are inescapable, impossibly simple and leveling all in their path. He is brought to a full stop, as if the only true act possible is to face us and name the conditions that rule his life and métier.
