Dong Soo Park

Born 1964, Seo-san, South Korea. Lives and works in Haemi, South Korea.

When we spot on his works, the feeling of a great surprise stems from energies spouted from action painting and sculpture created by him. It seems that the blasting power we feel from his work is fully controlled by him. The word “blasting" cannot be emphasized too much as it is acknowledged that his work has been heavily influenced by the collision of planets on the basis of cosmogony. We can sense that such as significant is his painting filled with dynamic energy and sense of balance and an impromptu like “ready-made".

At the same time, Cosmogony that is intact being witnessed from all of his work is strangely related to the micro cosmos and inner world such as human body system, cell body and fertilization.

Such a metaphysical vector bestows on his work density and opacity due to the being created by using acrylic pigment, oil colors, rendering, Korean paper (hanji) and a highly densified compound of inky water.

Thick layers like carapace found from many of his works are similar to the surface of lava. Almost every place of his work is well-themed that primitive energy, desire and violence have originated from a breeding ground of the unconsciousness of power…

The subject “Here we are" (Cette place-là) may seem very ambitious yet shows us how humble and modest human being should be. As a “through-created series", it is determined to lead us into what is beyond our imaginative capability, utilizing what is contrary to well-plotted mechanism…

Park's work is not like an outlet to your artistic desire but helps you understand how it has been ideally prepared for our world, which is unique systematic and profound.

Damien Ratto, 2007

SOLO SHOWS

2019

Here we are, Minsky gallery, Paris, France

2018

Soheon gallery, Daegu, South Korea
MARIA, JoJongBoon gallery, Haemi, South Korea

2017

Grande Vallée gallery, Haemi, South Korea

2015

Noir et Blanc, Soheon gallery, Daegu, South Korea

2014

Seosan Art Center, Seosan, South Korea

2013

Galerie Mina, Seoul, South Korea

2010

Philippe Samuel gallery, Paris, France

2008

Philippe Samuel gallery, Paris, France

2003

Minsky gallery, Paris, France

2000

Bellint Lamarque gallery, Paris France
Le grand réservoir, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

Bibliothèque Galilée, Oissel, France

Théâtre de la Nacelle, Aubergenville, France

Hélène Lamarque gallery, Rouen, France

1999

Dark Blue, Hugo Boss, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

Jacques Barrère gallery, Paris, France

1997

Espace Carole Brimaud, Paris, France

1996

Espace Bateau Lavoir, Paris, France

FIAP Jean Monnet, Paris, France

1995

Cultural Centre André Malraux, Le Bourget, France

1994

Galerie des Carrés, Versailles, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Korea galleries Art Fair,  Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul South Korea

2018

KIAF, Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

Korea galleries Art Fair, Galerie Soheon, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

2017

KIAF,  Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

Korea Galleries Art Fair, Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

Daegu Art Fair, Soheon gallery, Daegu, South Korea

Ecole de Paris – 2017 exhibition, Grande Vallée gallery, Haemi, South Korea

Ecole de Paris – 2017 exhibition, EDang Museum, Gunsan, South Korea

L'art contemporain de la Grande Vallée – 1, Grande Vallée Gallery, South Korea
L'art contemporain de la Grande Vallée – 2, Grande Vallée gallery, South Korea

2016

KIAF,  Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

Korea Galleries Art Fair,  Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
L'art contemporain de la Grande Vallée 2016, Galerie Grande Vallée, South Korea

2015

KIAF,  Soheon gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

2014

YIAF Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, South Korea

Artist, portrait of the aesthetic soul, Kumboseong Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2007

KIAF, Philippe Samuel gallery, COEX, Seoul, South Korea

Frontier between two artists of universe, Soheon gallery, Daegu, South Korea

The Focus of present,  Soheon, Daegu, South Korea

Elysée de l'Art, Philippe Samuel gallery, Paris, France
Art Daegu,

Soheon gallery, Daegu, South Korea

2002

Shanghai Art Fair,  Minsky gallery, Shanghai, China

Beauty of diversity, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

Bellint Lamarque gallery, Paris, France

1999

Arts contemporains français, Espace Paul Ricard, Artcom; Paris, France

1998

Asian Avant-Garde, Christie's, London, UK

1997

Souffle de vie, CHU Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

Du ciel à la Terre, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France

LAC, Luxembourg

1996

MAC 2000, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France

Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

Itinéraire '96, Levallois-Perret, Paris, France

1995

International Contemporary Art Prize of Monte Carlo, Monaco

Salon des Jeunes Artistes “Jean Monnet FIAP" Paris, France

Biennale de peinture d'Issy, Sud 92, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

Jeunes Talents, Le Mesnil-Saint Denis, France

Novembre à Vitry, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Salon Jeune Peinture Jeune Sculpture, Courbevoie, France

1994

Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

Jeunes Talents, Le Mesnil-Saint Denis, France

1993

Salon Versailles Jeunesse, Versailles, France

1992

Exposition Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Versailles, France

COLLECTIONS

Dong-il Steel, Gaya Company, Seoul Administrative Court, Seoul National University, COEX, Carole Brimaud, Tae Kwang Construction and Engineering Cooperation, Sunrise Kumho Electronics, SHJ Industry, ADES, BOERI Consultants, Sung Kyul University, La Nacelle, Jacques Barrère

EDUCATION

School of Fine Arts, Versailles, France

MFA Graphic Art, Université Paris VIII, Paris, France