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Since arriving in France in 2006, Korean artist Sun Young Min has focused her expansive creative practice on images of flora intuitively rendered in acrylic on canvas. \u201cEverything is expressed through flowers,\u201d she says, as she mobilizes the traditional Western genre of nature morte to address questions of youth, mortality and the passage of time. Formally emphasizing the gulf between jeunesse and maturity, Sun Young Min pushes some parts of the canvas to a very high finish while leaving others only just beginning.<\/p>\n

At times, she scratches her compositions with a metal sponge, preempting the natural process of decay.<\/p>\n

Clearly informed by \u201ctraditional Oriental painting,\u201d Sun Young Min also channels the intense pools of color and grand sense of space that define Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler\u2019s landscapes.<\/p>\n

Sun Young Min\u2019s work also echoes the rich narratives and expressive palette of Cy Twombly, who Sun Young Min cites as a key reference. Her creative process starts with an intense and deeply personal period of writing. She does not work from sketches or reference photographs, only the tumultuous, and sometimes humorous, wanderings of her mind. \u201cMy sketches are my writing,\u201d she explains, preparing her to complete each cycle of unique works with passion and speed.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The irises that populated Sun Young Min\u2019s Jardin Cor\u00e9en embody the artist\u2019s unique position between Europe and Asia. The flower many see as the inspiration for France\u2019s heraldic symbol of the fleur-de-lis, for Sun Young Min, also reveals her Oriental side, an icon of Korea, where a rainbow of varieties blossom in late Spring and early Summer. But Sun Young Min\u2019s irises are not only scepters of place and identity; in her work they have become autonomous creatures, charged with an evolving range of emotions and energies. The large scale of her work allows her flowers a dynamic corporality that demands a physical encounter with her viewer. Lately, Sun Young Min sees her irises becoming less Eastern and more European. Her once \u201ctimid and mysterious\u201d canvases, \u201crich in blues and purples\u201d are becoming \u201cconfident, sexual\u2026 Parisian, even!\u201d The most exciting part of her work is the visible struggle between extremes. On her canvases East meets West with the same overwhelming intensity that the inevitability of death faces the vibrancy of life.\u2013 Lillian Davies<\/p>\n

Lillian Davies is an art historian and critic specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is a professor of Fine Arts at Paris College of Art and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine, among other international publications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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