17/07/2018 Bárbara Gual
Sun Hee Moon, her story carries many cultures: Korean, currently she lives in Italy and she has spent some years of her life in Brazil. Degree in architecture and urbanism, the artist also participated in some other courses focusing on techniques and art history, including specific courses in the history of Brazilian art. The artist began her work with art in 2006, and amid some breaks, realized how the creative process was important to her.
“I feel like I make art because I have no choice. I mean, if I move away from art, it follows me … So to find my peace, I have to get involved in this creative production. “
Her artworks bring inspiration from great masters ranging from the Renaissance to the abstract contemporary art. We can see in her artwork a mix of inspirations like Caravaggio, Botticelli, the Impressionists, Pablo Picasso, Manga and Anime, mainly Hayao Miyazaki, the Brazilians who go from Portinari to Tarsila, the new Italians Cattelan, and the new Koreans especially the women, like Hyunjung.
Sun Hee Moon works with the techniques oil on canvas, pencils on paper and canvas and collage. With a spontaneous and figurative work, the artist paints about herself, and says that the understanding and appreciation of the public is a consequence and a relation between her, her work and the spectator.
Below you can check a little more about the work of Sun Hee Moon in her statement:
“My art has made a long journey. From 47 years until now it has traveled across three continents, met many seasons, made two children, got lost and then find itself again. My works, like my life, reflect a calm and smooth surface, over a tumult of reflections and torments which hide in the depth.
I am inspired by all the stories told during my childhood. The truth hidden in the words and faces of eternal characters. Stereotypes amuse me and are inspirational, because instead of creating order, sorting and cataloging, they confuse us, providing a growing sense of inquiry. In my paintings I try to convey this sensation, in a gentle way, expressing to the maximum what I think we really are, through my figurative technique: a little fable, a little manga because behind all the pictures, as behind people, there is always a story to listen to or to tell … or both.
The representation of the world through images has always attracted me since I was a child, in the comic books, in the newspaper, in the classic books of the brothers Grimm. During my several years of art history and art techniques, my admiration for figurative art grew along with the curiosity of knowing what the future could hold. Today, urban art, manga and all the bizarre figurative new generations of children’s stories contributed to my creations.
Besides, I want to draw the world as I see it, free from the classical rigor or the contemporary, real and imaginary hurry at the same time. My representative technique does not aspire to hyper-realism. When I am drawing and painting I like to think that I am not creating a work of art, but telling a story. The people in my paintings are like invented characters, with a story and a personality. I leave to the observer the reading of these figures, through the details, hoping that they will always be enough. “
The artist paints for love, to live, to dream. Even with a life already built, Sun Hee Moon feels an appeal for art from within. This appeal leads to a need to produce, to communicate, through everything she knows, expecting people to interact with her art simply and directly. Art is where Sun Hee Moon meets herself!
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