So I came across another Asian art technique that is formed from layers of wire mesh. This time, it's a Korean artist, Seung Mo Park. He creates ephemeral portraits with these wire mesh and it looks like a photograph in air and seems quite complicated. I really am awed when these works come with a great deal of labor intensive process. These artists really wanted to pursue something that will challenge themselves and make the art look effortless in the end. I stumbled upon this through what's trending on Colossal again. I guess you can say it's just like another virtual hub for independent artists and all cool art cultures are discovered here. As usual, you can view the process and artist in action from the video on the website! He's had several exhibitions and inspired fashion shows as well as features in Vogue. It was very blissful watching the video from the concept to how he executed the inspiration and project. The process seemed just as tedious, his inspiration for his portraits are taken from models posing underwater to give a fluid and angelic effect to the movement. Although the material and nature of this makes it a sculpture, it's seen more as a portrait. Layers of mesh wire gives him the ability and flexibility to control the shadows, highlights and negative/positive spaces to create that effect. He uses a subtractive method. Many contemporary arts nowadays uses a lot of juxtaposition, it can be viewed and thought of differently. I 'm really amused by the transition from 3D to 2D effect. As one stands further away from the portrait, it's can be seen as flat, but go up close, you will see individual layers upon one another that gives it depth and space. Light plays an important part in this work too as it changes the dimension and how much density you can see through. It reminds me of Georges Seurat's pointallism theory. I enjoyed how inspiring this is, I was glad he did exhibitions all over Asia and London as well. Hopefully he will be able to America to exhibit his works here.
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