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Person

early 2000s

Suh Se Ok 서세옥

(Korean, 1929–2020)
Korea
Ink on mulberry paper
Paper: 130.5 x 139 cm (51 3/8 x 54 3/4 in.); Framed: 146.3 x 155.5 x 6 cm (57 5/8 x 61 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2021.102
© the Estate of Suh Se Ok. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and London
Location: not on view
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The artist's son, Do Ho Suh (서도호, b. 1962), is also an artist, who reinterprets Korea’s traditional house or hanok, exploring the concept of home and space.

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Starting in the 1960s, Suh Se Ok focused on dismantling the boundary between the abstract and the figurative, and calligraphy and drawing, as a way to reshape the Korean ink painting tradition and its conventional expressions. To articulate the strong gestural movement delivered by a massive amount of ink, the artist dashed a large brush over a sheet of thick and fibrous Korean mulberry paper. Here, he transformed the ink into a colossal abstract symbol, which evokes two classical Chinese characters: big (大) and person (人).
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Person

early 2000s

Suh Se Ok

(Korean, 1929–2020)
Korea

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