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Title
Conjunction－87 "To the revived earth of Hiroshima"
Artist
HA Chong-Hyun
Year
1987
Material
oil on canvas

Work Description

A native of Korea who studied Western-style painting, Ha worked with newspapers, barbed wire, and scrap wood during the severe postwar shortages of the 1960s and 1970s, under the influence of Western art movements such as Art Informel. Eventually his interest turned to materials themselves, and he began work on the Conjunction series in 1974. By pressing paint into the reverse side of coarse linen cloth, he caused the paint to be extruded through the weave and produce unique painting surfaces. With this series of single-color paintings, the artist became a leading figure in the Dansaekhwa (lit. “Monochrome Painting”) movement that flourished in South Korea in the 1970s. The artist states that this work was inspired by the terrain of Hiroshima, which after the atomic bombing became a “land of death.”

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