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Ecriture No. 22–77

1977

Park Seo-Bo 박서보

(Korean, 1931–2023)
Culture
Korea
Medium
Pencil and oil on hemp cloth
Measurements
130.2 x 195.3 cm (51 1/4 x 76 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2023.48
Copyright
© Park Seo-Bo
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Park Seo-Bo drew inspiration for his Écritures series by watching his three-year-old son attempting to write a word inside a grid.

Description

Écriture No. 22-77 by Park Seo-Bo represents one of the most important modern and contemporary Korean abstraction called Dansaekhwa, meaning monochrome painting in Korean. In this work, Park repetitively incised the tip of the pencil into a surface still wet with whitish paint, marking the ebb and flow of the drawing process. Then, he added the pencil mark, removing paint. Park considers this a process of erasure.

According to the artist, Écriture series was born by watching his three-year-old son attempting to write a word inside a grid. Growing frustrated by his failure to fit within the lines, the boy abandoned his initial pursuit, and instead decided to create his own form of writing, a kind of repetitive scribbling. Park often compared the repetitive process of drawing lines to his way of practicing meditation in the time of frustration.
A vertically oriented print depicts gray, horizontal pencil striations, evenly covering the entirety of a cloth, but fading out to the cream background on the left and right edges.

Ecriture No. 22–77

1977

Park Seo-Bo

(Korean, 1931–2023)
Korea

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