Yim Choon Lee is an innovative Korean artist who calls his process Tearing Art. He paints both sides of the canvas and then cuts the linen to reveal the back side of the canvas. Beforehand, he places Korean traditional papers on top of the frame and paints, for a total of three surfaces. As the linen is torn and folded, the colors of three surfaces blend dynamically and create a stunning, three-dimensional visual effect.
Yims technique changes the experience of viewing a painting: the typical framed still-life painting now transforms into an alive structure with movement, three0dimensional, a genre which inspires the desire to reach out and touch the work.
After viewing Yims painting Black Hole for the first time, reactions of awe and wonder abound: Wow! Incredible! Unbelievable! Amazing! Admirers are enthralled with the gravitating attraction of the painting, pulling them closer to the wondrous cosmos of twisting layers and colors, drawing out their feelings of awe, fathoming how its creation was possible.
Born in Geoje, Korea in 1965, Yim comes from a three-generation lineage of Korean traditional bamboo and paper art. At age 5, he began to apprentice with his father. Together, they traveled throughout the Korean mountainside to collect bamboo for his fathers bamboo art. The bamboo art of Yims father would later have a major impact on Yims own paintings.
Yim recalls going to a bamboo mountainside with his father when he was just 9 years old:
Waiting through a sudden rainstorm, we watched the swaying of the bamboo leaves in the wind. In the swaying leaves and the background of mountains, suddenly I started to see a wave of colors that rocked through the entire mountain. It was like an illusion and was the most beautiful scenery I had ever seen. I knew then that I wanted to transform this phenomenon to a canvas.
Ever since, Yim has experimented with various materials and techniques to create his three-dimensional paintings on canvas. Today, he says his innovative creations have meaning beyond the aesthetic:
Three surfaces of painting represent the past (traditional paper surface), present (back of canvas linen), and future (front of canvas linen). In tearing art, one painting glues together past, present and future in three dimension.
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