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Ecriture No. 22–77

1977

Park Seo-Bo 박서보

(Korean, 1931–2023)
Culture
Korea
Medium
Pencil and oil on hemp cloth
Measurements
130.2 x 195.3 cm (51 1/4 x 76 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2023.48
Copyright
© Park Seo-Bo
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
236 Korean
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Did You Know?

Park Seo-Bo drew inspiration for his Écritures series by watching his three-year-old son attempting to write a word inside a grid.

Description

Écriture No. 22-77 by Park Seo-Bo represents one of the most important modern and contemporary Korean abstraction called Dansaekhwa, meaning monochrome painting in Korean. In this work, Park repetitively incised the tip of the pencil into a surface still wet with whitish paint, marking the ebb and flow of the drawing process. Then, he added the pencil mark, removing paint. Park considers this a process of erasure.

According to the artist, Écriture series was born by watching his three-year-old son attempting to write a word inside a grid. Growing frustrated by his failure to fit within the lines, the boy abandoned his initial pursuit, and instead decided to create his own form of writing, a kind of repetitive scribbling. Park often compared the repetitive process of drawing lines to his way of practicing meditation in the time of frustration.
Grey, horizontal pencil striations, evenly covering the entirety of a cloth, but fading out to the cream background on the left and right edges.

Ecriture No. 22–77

1977

Park Seo-Bo

(Korean, 1931–2023)
Korea

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