ArtView January 2015 | Page 24

Min Woo Bang The Contact Reflecting finely tuned technical skills as well as an in-depth cerebral exploration, Min-Woo‟s hauntingly beatific compositions are reminiscent of both Eastern and Western painterly aesthetics. Utilising a delicately balanced palette, the artist poetically renders the surface of his canvas to much critical acclaim. Min Woo Bang‟s surfaces, lustrously built up in oils, are both dramatic and subtle in their effect. Sometimes an under-structure reveals itself behind a small crack or running drip; these deliberate flaws and uneven textures are reminders of the artist‟s ongoing interests in the processes of time, the fragility of memory and nature‟s disintegration. The physical elements and forces of nature are interdependent in these atmospheric landscapes and the experience of nature‟s decay and transformation is balanced by a deep, physical connection to place. Min Woo Bang has been a finalist in numerous national art awards and prizes, most recently the prestigious King’s School Art Prize (2013), Tattersall Landscape Art Prize (2014) and Wynne Prize for Landscape (AGNSW) 2010. www.minwoobang.com