HANOVER, NH (PNAN) Still on view at the Hood Museum of Art through March 19, 2023, “Ink Reimagined” is exhibition of contemporary Korean ink painting, including 23 works, many are being shown for the first time in the United States by artist Park Dae Sung (b. 1945). His works inspires viewers to rethink modernity via tradition and engage with the impact of the past on life today.
“Park Dae Sung’s audacity lies in his ability to fully absorb and embrace traditional East Asian brush and ink painting,” said John Stomberg, the Hood Museum’s Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director, “while creating artworks of absolute contemporaneity. The paintings are awe inspiring in the truest sense of the phrase.”
The artist’s large scale paintings, some more than 25 feet long, revitalize traditional Korean brush and ink techniques for a modern audience with technical finesse. The exhibit is organized into four sections: Landscapes, Birds and Animals, Still Life, and Calligraphy.
His scenes present an imaginative reinterpretation of history that in turn encourages a more progressive and stirring vision of the future. It inspires a deeper contemplation of traditional East Asian art and the diversity of styles, meditative, dramatic, tranquil, and powerful, that exist in the medium of ink.
For more details on this exhibition, including Nothing Gold Can Stay through December 23, 2022 and other programming see: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu