2012 — Irip Ahn 안이립

Irip Ahn 안 이 립

@iripahn
iripahn@gmail.com

Clown No.1
Oil on canvas
90.9 x 72.7 cm
2012

Clown No.2
Oil on canvas
90.9 x 72.7 cm
2012

Clown No.3
Oil on canvas
90.9 x 72.7 cm
2012

Clown No.4
Oil on canvas
116.8 x 80.3 cm
2012

Clown No.5
Oil on canvas
90.9 x 72.7 cm
2012

Clown No.6
Oil on canvas
90.9 x 72.7 cm
2012

Clown No.7
Oil on canvas
116.8 x 91 cm
2012

Man
Oil on wooden panel
50 x 50 cm
2024

Decolorized

The subject of vanishing shifts from buildings to human beings. Oil and Hyeonmuk (玄), the traditional Korean ink known as the color of the sky and the color of the origin, collide on a single canvas. The tension between the materiality of Western oil paint and Eastern ink was already beginning at the level of the medium itself. The faces at the top of the canvas are still recognizable. However, as the gaze moves downward, the faces submerge into the blackness, until finally, the bottom two faces collapse toward the ground. This series depicts the chronological process of existence fading away. Yet, the compositional structure mirrors that of the factory series: endurance and melting coexist simultaneously. In this series, the boundary moves for the first time from external spaces into the internal human psyche. A face erased beneath makeup, the boundary between what is hidden and what is revealed.