New Phases of Mass and Geometry Can you imagine a scene in which conflict and cooperation play an ensemble? The word ‘concerto’ is a symphony based on two contradicting etymologies: Latin for ‘struggle’ or ‘argument’ and Italian for ‘agreement’ or ‘coordination.’ An essential point in this concerto is to harmonize diverse instruments in a single ensemble; thus the exhibition 《Concerto》 reflects the harmony of the rhymes produced by Dan Kim and Hyungji Park’s colorful artistic languages while colliding or connecting. Hyungji Park’s painting is based on the three-dimensional movement of adding or cutting materials in two dimensions, like sculpture. On the other hand, Dan Kim creates sculptures as if he deals with abstract symbols in painting. For them, the completion of work is not achieved at the end of a sequential fulfilment but is tentative that can be acquired in the process of maintaining a high entropy. The current surface drawn by Hyungji Park does not guarantee the shape of the future and also does not purely reflect the past time. Park constantly renews or rewinds the weight of the paint on the canvas without completely trusting or giving up on the brushwork. The important thing in that small stimulus in everyday life hovering around Park transformed into an abstract shape is the body’s sense of presenting the trivial image rather than the actual representation of the object. Park’s recent works derive mainly from the light, wind, noise beyond the window, and smell of
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