[2025 Art SG] Park Seo-Bo

Park Seo-Bo was a seminal figure in Korean contemporary art. He was one of the founding members of the Dansaekhwa movement, which emerged in the early 1970s post-war Korea and has since gained international recognition. In the late 1960s, Park began the ‘Ecriture’ series by repeating pencil lines over wet monochromatic painted surfaces. Later, he expanded the language through the introduction of hanji (traditional Korean paper) and color. The work is brought into being through the process of repetitive actions of pasting, scraping, scratching, and rubbing. It delicately balances drawing and painting in a quest for emptiness through reduction. Park’s work has been exhibited internationally, including: Museum of Fine Art, Boston, United States; the Venice Biennale, Italy; Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States; and Expo 67, Montreal, Canada. Park’s work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States; M+, Hong Kong, China; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; and the K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.