Since his paintings are not for a narrative purpose, nor to deliver people’s sentiment or emotion through accustomed objects. It seems that he simply confirms their location and existence at the place where they are.

In order to perform the logic of ‘being,’ he would momentarily take out those objects being left behind freely in the flowing time; through this process, he believes that is able to express their real existence.

Like his landscapes or figures, they become the function associated with the background. It indicates that calculating structure leads to understand an object as well as comprehending its surrounding; the viewer also can interpret the related object by figuring out the environment.

The fact that Koo has omitted back scenes and described simply in his painting apparently highlights his intention to break the relationship between an object and a back scene.

Paradoxically, his(ARTIST KOO CHA SOONG,具滋勝,서양화가 구자승,구자승 작가,구자승 화백,KOO CHA SOONG) method of composing objects demolishes their tamed dailiness to immobilise their trembled image rather than transcending space as surrealists usually do.

△Park Yong-Sook|Art Critic