The Newspaper Ecritures (2022–2023)

White Cube is pleased to present a selection of recent ‘Newspaper Ecriture’ paintings by Park Seo-Bo, the final body of work created by the artist before his passing in 2023. Executed on archival newspaper pages, these works are marked by both the date of the periodical’s release and the artist’s dynamic application of oil paint, and make a profound statement on the entwinement of temporality and creation. Park Seo-Bo initiated his ‘Ecriture’ series in the late 1960s, embracing an introspective methodology that has its origins in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, as well as the Korean tradition of calligraphy. This spiritual approach is inextricably linked to notions of time, space and material, concepts which underpin all of the late artist’s work. Park Seo-Bo graduated from the painting department of Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 1954. He became Dean of the University in 1973 and received an Honorary Doctorate from there in 2000. He was widely lauded throughout his career for championing Korean art and received Geum-gwan Medal, South Korean Order of Cultural Merit in 2021, the Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Awards in 2018 and Silver Crown Cultural Medal in Korea in 2011. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Château La Coste, France (2021); Langen Foundation, Neuss (2020); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul (2019); MFA Boston, Massachusetts (2018); the Venice Biennale, Italy (1988 and 2015); Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2014); Portland Museum of Art, Oregon (2010); Singapore Art Museum (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2007); Tate Liverpool, UK (1992); Brooklyn Museum, New York (1981), and Expo ’67, Montreal, Canada (1967). His work is included in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; M+, Hong Kong; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and Tate, London, amongst others.

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