Park Su-bok (Lucas Park)

Director, private Haein Art Museum

Artist’s Note

At the end of infinity (無極), I exist.

So sometimes I am very lonely.

But I am infinitely happy.

To exist is the sacred blessing of God.

Within this blessing, before the law of the myriad things (森羅), I search for Eastern straight lines and curves and Western planes of form, and, passing through countless time and space, I show the result of my effort.

In particular, the great gratitude and blessings, encouragement and support I received over the past eight years while hosting “SBS (TJB) Daejeon Broadcasting Hwacheop Gihaeng” (the travel sketchbook program) have created my present works.

Moreover, the beautiful grandeur of performing with large orchestras on stages around the world has met my “perhemming action performance,” and masterpieces imbued with soul have been born many times. I am honored that my work was selected and sold in succession in 2019 and 2020 through the American global online company “eBay Auction,” and was thereby introduced widely to people around the world.

Building on these experiences, this exhibition takes as its motifs the eternity of natural materials and the mobility of form, and is conceived as a warm work that anyone can share, agonizing over the law of birth and extinction.

I believe that art that is not approached from the humanities is science, and since artistic inspiration and science conflict, I try to focus not on numbers or logic but on warm emotional energy centered on people, the other face of reason.

Always working in nature, I try to dance before the beauty of dots, lines and planes, which point out the direction I am moving.

Biography

• PhD in Arts Management, Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
• Adjunct Professor, Brno Conservatory, Czech Republic
• Vice President, Namyejong School of the Arts
• Host artist of SBS Daejeon Broadcasting (TJB) “Hwacheop Gihaeng”
• Broadcast appearances on OBS, KBS, TBC, UBC, JTV, CJB, JIBS, TV Chosun and China’s CCTV
• 2019–2020 Artist at eBay Auction, USA
• 2017 Invitational exhibition, K-Art Gallery, Kwandong University
• 2017 Invited exhibitions in four European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary); invited to three consecutive exhibitions at the National Assembly of Korea
• 2019 Exhibitions and events in Japan, the United States and the National Assembly of Korea for the 100th anniversary of the March 1st Movement
• 2012 Grand Prize in Culture and Arts, “100 Who Made Korea Shine”
• 2016 Grand Prize in Culture and Arts, Korea Education Contribution Awards; juror, Venice Modern Biennale; international juror, Korea International Art Exhibition; chief juror, Hyatt Dulles Art Space, Washington, USA; works held by Seoul National University, the Court and Prosecutors’ Office, the National Assembly Secretariat, the National Institute of Environmental Research, University of Maryland, Sigmund Freud University in Austria, the National Art University in Brno, Czech Republic and others; expert member, Freud Institute, Sigmund Freud University, Austria
• 2020 Special invitational exhibition, Hyehwa Art Center; currently Principal Professor, Arts and Humanities Noblesse Executive Program, Graduate School, Hanseo University; adjunct professor, Dongguk University executive program; chair of the steering committee, Korea Art International Exchange Association; director, private Haein Art Museum; host of the OBS and OBSW program “Park Su-bok’s Art Journey”