I am a Korean artist based in Canada since 2021. A former university professor in art and architecture in Seoul, Korea, and a former director of an art gallery in Paris, France, I started my career as an artist since 2020 in France.

I have always had a great passion for music and painting that has spurred me on to achieve a sense of fulfillment, and especially music would be my life path surrounded by a musical family. But I moved into another field, discovering that I love taking complex thoughts in engineering, architecture and music that are closely related to each other. Enjoying and playing music, I completed my undergraduate study in mechanical engineering, my graduate study in architecture in the U.S.A. and architectural history research in France. For me, it is to my advantage being tied to two particular curriculum: music and architecture. This, in itself, allows freedom to follow my own artistic path.

Finding inspiration for my painting has been in music and architecture, and in 2019, I opened an art gallery in Paris, France in order to create a meeting place for art lovers and also to work closely with artists from all over the world, preparing myself to become a painter.

The artwork I have created spans more than twenty years, and the experiences acquired as artist as well as director of an art gallery in France have been incorporated into best practices of my work.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My art practice is inspired by Goethe’s words, “…architecture is frozen music” and my aim is to demonstrate my belief that architecture must evolve into something that, with its form, satisfies a spiritual thinking and into an artistic as well as cultural container – embracing human life.

Music notes move and the more I listen to music, the more I understand the inner structure of the music. Music is created by the communication between all kinds of sound from different instruments and they are related to each other within the fundamental principle of music from which would be formed various ‘imageries of music’.

By using geometry, I want to capture their sounds and movements onto canvas, frozen in a free form, drawing them up as if I complete architectural plans, provided that the establishment of architectural concepts could share common ideas with the composition of music, and at the same time, wishing that those who love music and art have all sorts of beautiful imagination through my art world.