스킵네비게이션

Born 1913 in Seoul, South Korea

Died 2016 in Paris, France

HAN Mook,Cross of the Golden Rhyme, 1991, Acrylic on canvas, 254×202cm

HAN Mook (HAN Baik-Yu) is a frontier of the geometric abstraction movement which appeared in the Korean art scene in the late 1960s. Prior to his Paris period, HAN Mook resisted traditional techniques which followed the laws of perspectives and chiaroscuro, and focused on highlighting two dimensionalities on canvas. But during his early years of the Paris period, his practice started to shift to abstraction. The moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 was an incident which deeply impacted his artistic practice. He started to explore time, speed, and the fourth dimensional space within his practice, noting that “it is a problem that you don’t feel the outer space while living in an infinite universe where the end is unknown.” With such notions and interests, HAN Mook developed his own language of geometrical abstraction filled with the dynamics of the cosmos. With compass and rulers, he created a form of a helix which infinitely multiplied, presenting continuity of time and the continuance of life. HAN Mook, who strived to deliver the four-dimensional cosmic order in two-dimensional surface, is recognized as a vanguard of geometric abstraction.