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Criticism

Multiplex Microcosm Parallel World

Full of Energy

Prof. Lee, Chull Young
Ph. D. Hongik Univ. Fine Art College/
Advertising&Public RelationsGraduate School Professor

In Sung ki-hyeok's works, anything visible isn't is he the Flashman who could travel to another
expressed. While Picasso painted what he felt dimension with lightning speed?

about objet instead of what he saw in it, Sung ki-
The light and waves that fill the gap between
hyeok painted something that fills the gaps and
visible objects are the most basic form of
the relationships of what he saw although he also
material. What is happening all the time could
did not paint what he saw as Picasso did.
be trivial and insignificant incidents, but Sung
As fantasy is seen only through dream, and we ki-hyeok expressed common things such as

can't see when we open eyes, Sung ki-hyeok's sunrise and sunset as light and touh of sensation
works are the images made in the brain by dreamy and impression. Actually, what he expresses is
memory as if we were dreaming, rather than the essentially something basic.
works were painted with his eyes open.
If we want to find imagination and creativeness
In the sky beyond the line that we can see and from Sung ki-hyeok's works, it might inappropriate.
the spring scenery full of warm energy is a parallel Rather than 'inappropriate', the correct word

world that can be called multiplex microcosm. would be 'right'. It means appreciating his works
Under the space where we live is another cosmos. with the perspective of art-science combination is

In this parallel cosmos, we exist taking root not appropriate. Then, what would be right? My
delicately like wild chive. Although it is said that simile might not be correct or too much, but his
Man is the lord of all creation, in reality human works seem to belong to the range of serendipity.
can neither see nor feel even 5 percent of all the In other words, the terminology is interpreted as

creation. 'things that happen unexpectedly', but I would
interpret this word as 'finding of different meaning
Michio Kaku, a world famous physicist who studies
that is out of meaning of scenery that people can
properties of creation, said that human can't see
see'. Sung ki-hyeok might have suffered from
or feel up to 95% of all the creation. Creatures that
nausea and stomachache of virtual reality while he
have extraordinary perception and sensory, other
traveled from dawn to four seasons when he was
animals and aliens could only see a little further.
young in order to find those things and put them
Then, is Sung ki-hyeok an alien by chance? Or
in the canvas.

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