GALLERY H.A.N.
Seoul, South Korea

Gallery H.A.N., Seoul

Ryung Kal’s paintings are occupied by mysterious power. Thick and smooth line suddenly draws a big curve and all different organic lines with different colors and thickness fill up the painting. The colored plane is on the top of achromatic colored background with small brush strokes and creates some flow in the whole painting. The tone of colors, the direction of brush strokes, abstract shapes and contrast between sharp and smooth lines create atmosphere. It is like creating movement on an immobile surface. The pictorial plane revives into an organic life with dynamic speed, time and power of space.

Myungil Lee questions the human existence. What is the form of emotions? How can we represent desire? What are the differences between what is seen and what is felt?

The permanence of human existence cannot be separated from impermanence. So is the relation between existence and non-existence. The story of the artist's life inspires his work and strives to find values of human existence expressed through human desires found in daily routines and emotions. He finds inspiration of his works in Buddhist’s Samsara, i.e. the eternal cycle of birth and death: all human beings are born, live and die; and exist living in symbiosis with others.