Venice 2022 Art Biennial Personal Structures-Arirang Cantabile
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Arirang Cantabile Ottchil (Korean lacquer), Hemp cloth on wood 20x20cm 162ps 2019-2022 |
Chae, Rimm has been creating “sculptural painting” based on the use
of ottchil, or Korean lacquer, and mother-of-pearl. She also demonstrates the
novel potential of ottchil as pure fine art through her lacquer landscape
paintings. At the exhibition “PERSONAL STRUCTURES,” she will present variegated
fantasies of ottchil through her art project Arirang Cantabile.
“Arirang,” is a lyrical folk song of Korea, inscribed on the Representative
List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012 in recognition of
its Outstanding Universal Value. Recently, BTS’s cover of “Arirang” has
transformed this traditional folk number into a global sensation.
Her artwork reinvents Korean sensibilities and landscapes conjured
up by “Arirang” through inner imagery. A polyptych comprising some 160 panels,
it recreates the elements of traditional aesthetics (lines, colors, and empty
spaces) with a modern twist and her unique insights. She uses creative lines
based on the traditional color schemes known as obangsaek and ogansaek. As she
notes, “The yellow, blue, red, white, and black hues that constitute obangsaek
are beautiful colors reflecting the principles of nature.” A designer of traditional
accessories, she evokes oriental moods in her works and ponders over the
temporality of colors — a concept that forms the spiritual root of traditional
Korean paintings. She mixes colors, peels them off, reinterprets them, and
redesigns them while revealing the innate texture of lacquer. She sometimes
employs vivid primary colors, fills the panel with light and soft pastel tones,
or expresses depths using achromatic colors. Her work, which encompasses
diverse contrasting values (e.g. the traditional and the contemporary, the East
and the West, and light and darkness), leaves lingering feelings amid the
juxtaposition of the simple and the profound as well as the bold and the
delicate.
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Through real and recalled scenery crossing between the figurative
and the abstract in the connotative language of colors, her work manifests both
restrained innocence and refined glamour. Oriental philosophical concepts, such
as relationships in life, circulations in nature, harmony between humans and
nature, are embedded in varying hues and simplified landscapes. Her language of
colors embraces visual sensibilities and deep contemplation, creating diverse
moving scenery.
Using native Korean materials, such as hemp cloth and paper, she
expresses a differentiated aesthetic while exploring a new sculptural language
by utilizing modern jewelry as objets d'art on the lacquered panels. This is
not only an aesthetic achievement resulting from her delicate attention to
landscapes but also an outcome of her efforts to reproduce Korean imagery using
a modern sculptural language.
Each landscape vignette (e.g. mountains, an island, the sea, and the
sky) that unfolds on a 20x20cm wood panel combines to create a dynamic
panorama. Each of the 160 panels exist independently but
together provide the viewer with an epic, lyrical fantasy. The polyptych will
invite us to explore diverse lacquering techniques and hues, experimental
spirit of materials, humanistic concepts and the philosophy of color through
the communion between the traditional and the modern.
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