Dramatic Dualities and Emotional Entanglements Unfold in the Metaphysical Realm of Moonassi’s ‘Murmures’ — Colossal



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Pensive faces, ambiguous gentle sources, and mysterious areas characterize the atmospheric drawings of Moonassi, whose solo exhibition Murmures at Vazieux Gallery delves into the surreal world of reminiscence and feelings.

In black-and-white ink and acrylic, the Seoul-based artist cross-hatches figurative scenes onto Korean hanji paper, portraying deep contrasts, dualities, and tensions. Wealthy, black shadows reveal glowing arms and faces, exploring relationships between gentle and darkish, consciousness and the unconscious, presence and absence, and the identified and unknown.

Moonassi makes use of meok, a sort of conventional Korean inkstick floor towards a stone with water to provide a liquid medium. The meditative technique of making ready the ink helps the artist concentrate on the duty at hand and focus on every step.

Describing his work as “thoughts illustration,” Moonassi’s items concentrate on pairs or twins in uncanny conditions like tending to a flame inside considered one of their heads, peering right into a void, or tying their arms along with string. His topics characterize psychological and religious dichotomies that exist each inside people and in relationships, making a dreamlike world which invitations myriad interpretations.

Murmures continues in Paris by means of February 24. See extra on Moonassi’s website.

“Hold you burning” (2023), meok and acrylic on hanji, 92 x 72 centimeters

“Dive into uncertainty” (2023), meok and acrylic on hanji, 92 x 72 centimeters

“Superposition X” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 48 x 34.5 centimeters

“Seeing alone collectively” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 142 x 102 centimeters

“Tie the knot” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 102 x 142 centimeters

“Mild we discovered” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 142 x 102 centimeters

“Two instances two” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 142 x 102 centimeters

“Mild we ready” (2024), meok and acrylic on hanji, 93 x 119 centimeters

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#ink
#Moonassi

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