Saturday, January 20, 2018

Young-Il An "Unexpected Light" @ LACMA


Water ALSW 16, 2016
Oil on canvas








Water music, 2007
Mixed media









Water LLG 12, 2012
Oil on canvas






Water LLBG 16, 2016
Oil on canvas







Water BLRG 16, 2016
Oil on canvas




Somewhere around twenty years ago, 1998 or so, I saw Kusama's work for the first time.  The works I liked best were the large paintings, the one with skeins  of white marks on light surfaces.  Below is an example of a smaller one:


Upon seeing the paintings of Young Il-An, I thought of these Kusamas and how similar the process of mark-making, about the movement on the surface of things (light, sound, paint, optical titillation, subconscious thoughts...), shimmering, fleeting, repeating.  Fragments over a unified field like unknown words on a page, notes...

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