Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Hoon Kim

BURU GARAK (Primordial Music)

The viewers see the image of Painting 1, its inverted image and grid which separates them. This way, the painting shows two worlds against the grid. The grid reminds Korean viewers of the frame of rice doors/ windows.

“ At the beginning, there was BURU GARAK (YULYEO- primordial music) and from this music appeared the First Person (Gamara, Mago). As this person tends to the BURU GARAK, came two daughters, from whom two sets of daughters came. From these 7 (female) persons, came all visible world including male counterparts. At the end of the final journey of a person, she/he arrives at the primordial state where music prevails. For a musical theme, I adopt the musical motif of Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43. I put over Painting 1 its inverted image, using the grid of the Korean traditional rice paper door/windows, thus suggesting two worlds. ”