스킵네비게이션

Born 1951 in Seoul, South Korea

Lives in Yangpyeong

SUH Yongsun, The Arrested Man, 2003, Oil on canvas, 250×200cm

SUH works with subjects of history, myth, war and people on canvas, with a presentation through vivid use of colors and rough textures. The scenes of people within historical events, or the images of people today living in cities, are presented in a dynamic composition. By overlapping events which happened in different times and spaces in his historical painting series, SUH puts a light on the sufferings of individuals caught in a maelstrom of history, to deliver the fetters of time on canvas. In the paintings depicting contemporary men along various symbols representative of the city, he displays the insecurities of people living under pressure. Through rough, formative language, SUH visualizes relationships and conflicts of human existence and the problems they cause. In the self-portrait series, his face is not only a reference to the artist himself, but broadly, it can be recognized as a looking glass into the history and era.

SUH’s work often holds a specific reference, either an event or a character in history. In the end, what we encounter through his canvas are the reflections on the universal human conditions present in the problems of human existence, sublimated by the artist’s unique formative language.