Sun dog - Huh Jeong-Won

Sun dog

2018 Acrylic & oil on canvas 162.2 x 260.6 cm

Provenance

Artist Collection, 2026

Exhibitions

2018《A 'Painterly' Approach to 'Drawing'》, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

About The Work

The sun (太陽) is the closest star to the Earth.
 
It descends upon us with a sense of vastness that governs the universe, appearing warm and gentle, yet at times extending outward with a sharpness like shards of glass, piercing and intense. The sun also hovers around us as a powerful force that seems capable of melting all things, while simultaneously taking on the presence of a watcher that observes without distinction between day and night.
 
I imagine that there could be two suns in the sky. A sun composed of stars, at the moment of its extinction, generates another sun, drawing up the Earth’s water and all things into a spherical form through its gravitational force.