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*HANILJA
` HANILJA is a departure.
` HANILJA is a dot.
` HANILJA is a line.
` HANILJA is a stroke.
` HANILJA is a bit.
` HANILJA is a soul.
` HANILJA is a blank.
` HANILJA is a defective point.
` HANILJA is a complete point.
` HANILJA is a broken point.
` HANILJA is an original point.
` HANILJA is an emptiness.
- Sang-dong Noh‘s Essay
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About Artist
The Dissemination and the Revival Suh
Noh, Sang-Dong's work has gone through several phases in its development. It started from suh-yae (calligraphy) in the traditional sense, and returned to the essence of suh (writing). He disseminated suh, took the meanings of the written words out, and arrived at the final destination of the Chinese character of one (一). After that, he even took the meaning of this one stroke, thus arriving where suh-yae has begun. A dot is the end and the beginning. He coined his suh-yae as abstract suh-yae. When it reached this moment, suh (writing) and hwa (painting) encounter each other at their fundamental level. Through this he freed his art from the traditional suh-yae, and arrived at the new beginning of combining writing and painting.
Muk, the Union of the Process
Noh wanted to reestablish the value of muk (ink). The works, that are presented in this exhibition, show the journey that he took since , 2004. The composition through Han-il-ja seemed like a journey that would go into the far beyond. Then we see the journey that he took after that. By putting color dots into a grid format, he created space. Then, in order to disseminate the rigid image, he added the Juk-suh (overlapping) technique. Since then, his work has arrived at and stayed in three-dimensionality, and was able to achieve this depth by adding the water-like state of muk (ink) dots. In this we discover the subtle power of the water dot that ranges from nothing to one degree of monochromatic saturation. This results in a depth that is qualitatively different from the creation of depth through absence that we see in Asian traditional brush paintings. At the end of the journey, muk includes and embraces all the steps of the journey without discarding anything.
- Min-young Park (Curator, Daegu Art Center)
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Biography
Sang-dong Noh(1952-)
1952 Born in Uljin, Korea
E-mail : hanilja@hanmail.net
Education
Master's degree in Confucianism, Graduate School at Sung-kyun-kwan University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1985-2007 22 Times held in Korea and abroad
2006 Han-il-ja (一), Woo-bong Art Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2005 Han-il-ja (一) Modern Art, Bong-sung Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2005 Koo, Kwang-yeul's poem & Noh, Sang-dong's painting, Claustro Sor Juana University in Mexico & Ulsan University in Korea
2004 Han-il-ja (一), Bong-sung Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2002 Pa-suh calligraphic style, Baek-ak-yeh-won in Seoul & Bong-sung Art Center in Daegu, Korea
2000 A flower blossomed at ink and brush,
Seoul Arts Center & Chung-san-hyang-rim in Daegu, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 From Unbeing, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2006 2 People Invitation, Gyeongbuk University Museum, Daegu, Korea
2006 Sim-mul-ji-pa, Mulpa Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2005 International Modern Suh-yae Exhibition, Hangzhou, China
2004 Water Stream, Busan City Gallery, Busan, Korea
2003 Oriental Thinking & Modern Art, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2003 Daegu Art Expo 2003, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
2002 Image, Text, Typo, Busan Modern Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2002 Oriental Brush & Ink Sprit, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2002 Suh-yae Classic and Reinterpretation, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2002 Brush & Ink meet Alphabet, Deok-won Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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