February 7th - 26th, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 7th, 7-9pm
At the Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery
The Korean
Cultural Center proudly presents exhibition, called
PARK Jae Kon (1937-1993) was an artist from the post-war abstract generation. His art was characterized by vibrant colors and simplified, abstract images inspired by life, nature, the rootless quest of his own life, and an eternal fascination with the mysterious and the unknowable. PARK Jae Kon graduated from Seoul National University of Fine Art in 1960. Subsequently, he le Korea and spent 20 years living in and traveling through many different countries before returning to the country of his birth in 1992. His journey initially took him to Quebec, Mexico, Tahiti, Tobago, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina, and was a search as much for the meaning of life as for artistic inspiration. During this me, with the collaboration of his wife, he exhibited his art in museums and galleries all over South America. Later, his restless wanderings led him into the Amazon and to Chile and Peru. In 1992, the National Gallery of Argentina exhibited his most recent works of art, which were charged with freedom and energy. PARK Jae Kon, the restless, bohemian, wandering artist, died less than one year after he finally put an end to his travels and returned to his mother country of Korea, leaving one to consider that perhaps it was his wanderlust gave him the strength to endure life.