Yung Nam Park

Park Yung-Nam, who starts painting at sunrise and stops at sunset, is an artist who strives to capture light on his canvases. For Park, light is colour. Composing his picture-planes only with colours, rather than representing figures, he explores the origins of nature through abstraction.

Also known as the 'finger painting artist,' Park makes this exploration with the most primitive tool—his hands. In this process he feels the canvas surface texture directly on his fingertips, and this allows him to complete the natural interaction among the painting, spectators and himself by focusing on and revealing the materiality of paint and canvas.

According to the artist, his paintings absorb all the sunlight during the day, and beam out that light in the dark, like the moon. As for his act of painting with his hands, he calls it 'talking to the world.' Thus he calls his works, consisting of black and white picture-planes, Moonlight Song. Artist Park Yung-Nam, who defines art as 'part of life,' paints a utopia using light by exploring the origins of grand nature on canvas, and singing a song from within through his painting.