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Title: being - forest Media: oil and graphite on canvas Dimensions: 39 x 78 inches Price: contact the gallery for price Fassbender Gallery 312.666.4302 |
 
Korean artist Yun-Hee Toh also observes and comments on nature and our perception of it, but in a completely different manner. Her quiet and elegant oil on canvas paintings reminisce about ancient landscapes. With their misty and ethereal atmospheres and smoky varnish overcoatings, they seem antique and somehow precious. Their monochromatic palettes make them seem otherworldly and like something remembered from a dream. In elegant grisaille, grainy and microscopic leaves wave and eddy in unseen and long dead winds. These artworks hint at, while never actually identifying with, classical Chinese landscape paintings. They steep themselves in history, but a history so old as to be primordial. In fact, these works may be so primordial as to come Rill circle and bring us a history of the future. Are those waving leaves really microorganisms? If so, how can we view them without the aid of modern technology and theory? Toh seems most interested in recording our interactions with nature and the nature of this relationship's aging. Continue to artwork... |
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