Dae Cho Park

Dae Cho Park (Korean:박대조, born 1970),Park creates a portrait of children who are influenced by events in nature and life. In other words, he draws nature to sustain purity through children even though he is suffering from a steep hill that penetrates life. But these seemingly innocent children endure the wounds of loneliness, loss and pain as they can be seen in their eyes. Park believes that social and personal habits have damaged our nature due to sexual desires. The model pictured by him is a metaphor that depicts the existential moment of life as well as the meaning of life itself. This idea is related to Buddhism, and our teleological world is just a fantasy and embraces the idea that we will continue to suffer until we have a secular desire in our hands. He grew up close to the doctrines of Buddhism, and he fused Buddhist doctrines with Taoist beliefs that emphasize the standing of the Buddha with nature. His works and essays derive from these two religious philosophies. Park Daejo has been doing serious research on Nozawa and Zhangjia who believe that they should live with respect for nature. This led to genuine concern for the environment as a philosophy of practice that emphasized the benefits of harmonious nature rather than the intent of religion. The destruction of the ozone layer due to air pollution, water quality and soil pollution and nuclear could not be imagined in our ancestors.

Unlike Ralph Ueltzhoeffer's Text-portrait, which combines DOS's digital language and photography, Bok Dae-Jo moves children's photos onto natural materials called stones. He uses all colors in one, usually monochrome or black and white to represent all the colors that are absent from other colors, such as a return to nature. Humans are reduced to a part of nature after they die. Stone is a fuel of nature where human time is sprouted. For this reason, he is trying to infuse new life into the stone as a portrait of pure children.

Park Daejo is a writer who shows intense emotions by showing the cool media world experienced by modern people and the enormous environment with some kindness. He paints over the pictures of children. It combines two means of expression to express objects in a kind of hell. The way he deals with serious problems of aesthetic significance reveals that he focuses on the vision of a broad and philosophical reality. Like other medium - sized writers of his generation, he covers not only the Korean society but also the difficult problems facing the world in various ways. His work is based on the development of modernism and postmodernism. Also, I can clearly see that the superficial elegance of the works reveals the enchantment of the image that Park Daejo made, that is, the power of photography that can stop the time even if it is only a moment. The images born out of his hand capture our gaze as soon as we see it, but at the same time, it is also worthy of introspection in accordance with the sincere meaning implied in it. This is a work of this era, but it also suggests the possibility of the future as a document that records Korea in the world facing and challenging problems. One of the ethical standards of our past that we remember is related to the feelings we feel about atomic bombs. Before and after the atomic bomb, our moral argumentation changed dramatically. A black scarf is a photo of an oriental child halfway down the face of the face. It is a picture of intense purity unless it is a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud painted in the middle of the pupil of both eyes of the child. How do we understand this tremendous weight that an image of a child holding death in the gazing eye throws? This is not a cliched image, but it certainly suggests provocative elements. We know that beauty and death are often interrelated through the history of literature. However, as in this work, it is extremely rare for the two concepts to have obvious connectivity. The fact is that we are still at odds over expressing the destructiveness of nuclear bombs that are still threatening humanity. This young girl's eyes are beautiful on the surface but show different aspects of reality filled with the effects of pain. Therefore, this work has a solemnity that overturns the radiant beauty of the child's face. It has become a work of art that examines the terrible consequences of massive destruction. A City-Bred Child is a transparent image of a girl's eyes and hair using various means of expression. The girl in this work also covers the lower part of the face with a cloth, but this time the bright green squares form the upper part of the face. Reminiscent of an image that is as simple as a series but just as effective. This small series clearly embodies a dangerous visual representation despite its content. Another piece of Broken Heart shows an image of a young girl painted in marble and painted in acrylic. It is an intense work that has become thicker and darker, some of which have been completed in green, close to black, with a stylized arrangement of rectangles and squares throughout the surface of the image. This work, which is considered to be a masterpiece in terms of both a sophisticated technique and a strong emotional image, shows that the dignity and spiritual value of children still attracts a strong interest to the artist and that he is the highest priority artist in his artistic interest. It shows. Comprehensively, all of his images show that there is a hidden deeper purpose and serious intention than what we can notice when we face our first work on the surface of the softness that appears in the photograph. This sincere purposeful ritual is also a place where Buddhism and Park Daejo can be linked with respect for all life. As the artist himself mentions, the image in the work deals with the pain that is happening in the world. In the works described above, the artist puts the image in the framework of imagination. However, the shadow of the well-known blight does not disappear. The gaze of a young Korean girl who does not leave her mind easily reminds us of the experience of disaster, mainly from a moral point of view. It is heartbreaking for the viewer to recall the genocide through the eyes of a girl, but this is also a call for confrontation with the reality of historical experience. There is a contradiction in finding the mushroom cloud in the child 's eyes, but the child' s facial expression is like our own self - portrait. The important point is that these images are not superficially transmitted, but convey the concept of how we can do terrible things. Through the realism that can be found in the work of Park Dae Jo, the work is filled with the presence of the type, and this presence reflects not only the naive innocence of the child but also the cruel violence of the atomic bomb. As a result, the writer stands on the side of experience and uses his imagination to call attention to the facts that we try to deny. Such a preference for cruelty realism shows that there are still artists who are devoted to portraying the destructive impulses, even when contrasting malicious events and innocent children who do not leave their minds. The path of choice is clear. Will our children try to grow to be innocent, or will they be put to death and destruction? Art should communicate the situation of human being as objectively as possible. Not because we have an obligation to do so, but because art is a mirror of our appearance in a transformed way. Therefore, a wide range of topics dealing with art should not be confined to innocence, but should also deal with violence as a cross-section of life. Park Taejo shows the story of a perception of ethical guilt and the problems surrounding us in a trivial sight. We combine beauty and bombs for ethical overthrow, and at the same time show our sins in all parts of the world. No matter how honest we are about ourselves, no matter how impressed we are with beauty, we must face our potential violence. By claiming beauty as a comrade, Park Taejo makes the bitter medicine sweet that we all have to swallow. We can not blame him because we are still alive.

Career:
Won the Grand Prize in the Eco Environmental Sculpture Competition
M.F.A in Korean Painting, Sang-Myung University Citation, Seoul, Korea
Ph.D in Art and Design Department, Sang-Myung University, Seoul, Korea
Exhibitions
2013
OBSEREVER, Kwanhoon Gallery, Korea(solo)
Eye of rarity at Ma-San Art Center, Korea (solo)
Eye of rarity at Chang-Dong gallery, Korea (solo)
2012
Eyes of Return, Gallery Pahk, Korea (solo)
2011
Stone Garden, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korea Galleries Art Fair 2011, Seoul, Korea
Tokyo Frontline Art Fair 2011, Tokyo, Japan
Singapore Art Stage, Singapore, Singapore
Wish, Gallery Stanza, Seoul, Korea (solo)
The Heart of Child, Able Fine Art, New York, United States (solo)
2010
Innocence, Gallery M, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Innocence Lost, Chelsea Art Museum, NY (solo)
Beautiful Mountains and Streams, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Young Artist Collection Exhibition, Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, Korea
Good morning, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Wish, Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2009
Artexpo New York, New York, NY (solo)
Invitational Exhibition, Spain Valencia Omaso Gallery, Spain
Shanghai Art fair,Shanghai, China
Revolution Art 2009 Taipei, World Trade Center, Taiwan (solo)
Invitational Exhibition, Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea
INEART-The Heart of Child (Dolls), Gallery Hoshi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Busan International Mul-art Show 2009, Busan, Korea
Singapore Art Fair, Singapore
Hong Kong International Art & Antiques Fair(HKIAAF), Hong Kong, China
KIAF, Seoul, Korea
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Blue Dot Asia, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
MBC 60th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Center of Gwinnett County Spring and Bedford City, Atlanta, GA
SOAF Inviting Artists’ Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
New York Art Expo, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
New Human, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
Obscure Layer, Ambiguous Duplication 2-Removal of photographic Reality, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea
Marilyn Monroe, Gallery Godo, Seoul, Korea
Park, Dae-Cho and Kim, Ji-Hee, Gallery The K, Seoul, Korea
Too Young”, Han-won Art Museum, Korea
2008
Invitational exhibition, Kyung hyang Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
The Heart of Child, Insa Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Two Tales Of Child, Gallery Jin-sun, Seoul, Korea
The Chorus Project, New hun Gallery, New York and Washington D.C.
The Young Contemporary Art Museum Opening Exhibition for Gyeonggi Art, Korea
2007
Grau Gallery, Korea (solo)
Poetry, Again, Is Hope, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
2006
Moving Cape, Lotte Gallery, Korea
Amang, Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
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