namboohee

Human body has been pursued as Human’s ‘Beauty’ and set as the standard of beauty by artists since Greece. Particularly, the nude of women’s body is an origin of imagination towards Greek myths. It has been reflected in many artists’ works as an image of transcendental metaphor which causes emotions and ideal imagination.

Boohee Nam has continuously been drawing and painting nude of women’s body since he has started his career as an artist. In this exhibition, he will show his new works that contain different ways of expressing the nude. His new art works are resulted from his research and experience when he travelled and stayed in New York, Paris and London throughout a year of 2011.

Human body gave a motive to new artistic media from 20th century and it performs as an important subject even for the modern art. The cubism artists create the nude works through completely breaking up and analyzing the object/human body. In 60s and 70s, the artists creates the works by focusing on an action itself or human body and making a unique point where the action and human body become one. In Modern arts, the nude works does not reflect human’s ‘nude’ but ‘body’ itself, which send a specific message in the culture and society and it is expressed in various ways and infinite possibilities.

In this way of modern art which contains so many various ways of expressing human body, the works of Boohee Nam does not only show the extension of his art from the past, but also the new tries of understanding nude. Normally, he used to express clear and soft skin of women in very detailed and sensitive way. However, in this exhibition, he maximizes the graphic feelings and emphasizes the semi-abstract effect by improvised and speedy touches. The detail of expressing soft skin of women is determined and is spouted by using energetic touch of brush. The objects that feels like it independently exists is overflowing on the scene. The unrestrained touch on the canvas is the artist’s expression of susceptibility that concentrated in his inside and it draws attention as a meaningful process of his serious art experiment.

In terms of new trials of materials, he applied oil paints as well as acryl, gel and charcoals in order to investigate their power of expression and tendency of autonomy. As a result, it feels like the women who were captured in the passive frames 'posing' inside of the closed and certain space, deviates from there and express themselves more freely and voluntarily. It gets rid of the details of the nude and sends active and expressive messages.

The effect of the color that is resulted from this expressive and dynamic touch of the artist is appeared as a consequence of new modern investigation of space which is different from the old ones that has been pursued self-identity between space and time since Renaissance. Eventually, the Rhythmical color and sides of the space overlap, scatter, rise and fall and create a new space. And the 'relationship' of nude/shape that exist in that space frequently come and go away and it represents the meaning of the moderns' neglects, forfeiture, and severance by the artist's own form. Therefore, this exhibition seems to be the important point where it will show how the artist will send messages about the 'world' and the rules, systems, and preference of the world in which way of visual presentation from now.