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Younghoon Bahk: The Aesthetic World of the Infinitesimal Calculus
¡°No law exists before the one stroke that generates it all,¡± writes Shitao, a genius painter from the Ming-Qing transition period, at the beginning of his aesthetic theory. A connection can be made with Marcel Duchamp¡¯s ¡°concept¡± that becomes art, John Cage¡¯s ¡°noise¡± that becomes music, and Merce Cunningham¡¯s ¡°daily gestures¡± that becomes dance. The artist, who is at the vertex of individualism, creates a work of art at ground zero with the particularity of their world as its smallest building blocks. Younghoon Bahk¡¯s painting, similarly, begins and ends with a single dot.
In the history of art, there are numerous examples where a dot is applied as the smallest abstract unit in constructing an image. From Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Roy Lichtenstein to Damien Hirst, many artists have created works using the effects of color that occur between these dots. With the development of digital media, even pixels and halfpoint dots have been employed as the smallest unit to create art. Younghoon Bahk¡¯s work can be placed within this spectrum. However, Bahk¡¯s dot is not simply the smallest unit like the ¡°Abstraction Degree Zero.¡± Rather, it is a small three-dimensional ¡°thing¡± that has a solid mass with its own shape. A dot is materialized on canvas simultaneously representing a point, surface, shape, and color; it is the re-presentation of all things. Even though a dot is a representation, it does not signify or indicate anything other than itself, just like a pixel or a halftone dot. The artist¡¯s gesture of attaching each dot on the surface of the canvas not only evokes the effect of a brushstroke in traditional paintings, but also proves the artist¡¯s cumulative effort in realizing the impalpable metaphysics of his meditative volition and approach towards art. As a result, Younghoon Bahk's dot is inevitably the artist's perspective of the world we live in and his determination to hold on to it.
Younghoon Bahk takes a thin semi-matte colored aluminum and cuts it with a machine into small pieces of 6 different sizes and 5 distinctive shapes. He then attaches each piece onto a canvas using a medical tweezer. Finally, he paints over the entire canvas with matte and transparent urethane. Such a process is undoubtedly time consuming and labor intensive. Though at first glance, his painting may look like a semiconductor circuit board or a distribution board that is produced in a factory, it is in fact closer to a miniature art installation made up of over 10,000 small individual pieces. It echoes the aesthetic of an aerial view of a city, a diorama, or a model of architectural development.
At close distance, numerous three dimensional dots are conspicuously composed in an orderly fashion and its visual experience is stereoscopic. However, as one moves away from the work, the three dimensionality of the canvas transforms into a feast of flat colors, and eventually one is left with light exuded by colors. Subjected to the viewer¡¯s position, the visual stimulus caused by the composition and arrangement of the work¡¯s smallest units loses its shape and gradually metamorphoses first into colors then to a beam of light. Within the experience of color and light, form itself becomes meaning or a concept. As the viewer is liberated from the general understanding of a ¡°thing¡± in its materiality, they can participate in the journey of freedom as a form of sensation. By virtue of the magical effects of Bahk's work, the physical space of a gallery is transformed into a sensuous space where matter fades into color.
Like Leibniz¡¯s monumental world harmoniously composed with monads, categorically the smallest unit of existence, Younghoon Bahk¡¯s painting is in itself a totality that is caused by its own volition. Each dot is placed by the artist¡¯s hand that is external to all causes, serendipitously presenting the work to the viewer. As every dot with its own sovereignty enters the artist's consciousness and desire, the final creation is yet another ideal world. The process of creation demands an inexhaustible amount of severing to the point of the smallest unit only to rebuild from it again, like the rigorous and virtuous world of mathematics. It is no coincidence that calculus has two major branches, the differential and the integral. The solitary, virtuous, and romanticized inner workings of Younghoon Bahk that have been cultivated and perfected by the artist alone, finally reveals its world that has never been seen by anyone. It is by all means provocative and tentative.
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