Since wrapping up his painting activities in the early 2000s, Song Kwang Ik has been concentrating on making things with paper which he refers to as paper things. Numerous things have come into being by his hands in the name of paper things.

While the shift in his work was triggered by hanji, a type of Korean paper evocative of light and wind that he used as a child, he presently showcases the hidden aspects of many kinds of paper such as that used for newspapers, magazines, and printmaking.

Recently he has been maximizing the material properties of paper by adding objects like rubber to his works that possess features contrary to those of normal paper. All the same, paper is still the focus of his attention. What characteristics has his adoption of paper left behind following his abandonment of his long-held painting activities?

Paper Things 1. Knowledge Know, reveal, close friends, one who acknowledges me, make friends with: knowledge We tend to think of artists as generally unique and offbeat beings that are slightly different from us. Thus, we regard their way of seeing the world as perhaps different from ours.

Song’s(서양화가 송광익,송광익 작가,송광익 화백,한지작가 송광익,한지추상화가 송광익,KOREA PAPER,宋光翼,지물(紙物),ARTIST SONG KWANG IK,ソン・グァンイック ) works demonstrate the mysterious phenomena that may arise when an artist encounters paper commonly found in our surroundings. paper Things remind us of an encounter between a thing and a human being and the depth it creates.

△By Ha Yun-ju(Art Critic)/하윤주, 미술평론가