Quote of the day:
“Dali’s soft forms and deformations …its major antithetical relationships also subsume the dialectic of the soft and the hard form which Dali’s vision of softness ultimately gains its strength…the soft and hard are contrasted within the painting (often in terms of the contrast as well as confusion, between animate and inanimate matter)
(Salvador Dali’s art and writing, finkelstein 1996)
One day, while I was flipping through a random art magazine in the library. I came across a rather odd artwork that captured my attention immediately.
It had a strange presence to the photograph, didn’t know what at first but wrote down the name of the artist anyway and looked it up on internet.
Unfortunately nothing much came out about him but just a website with images of his artwork and captions in German.
Der Zwang zur Tiefe 2007 (The compulsion to the depth 2007)
http://www.seungheehong.com/dzt.htm
His name is Seun hee hong, Korean –German artist and that’s the only thing that I could get about him.
Later that day I’ve realized why I was drawn to it so much that day. Too immersed in Dali’s melting clocks and shocking paranoic images I was intrigued by Seung hee Hong’s artwork that suggested a sense of softness and animated to what we perceive should be hard and inanimate objects. Surreal!
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