Details
CHO YONG-IK (B. 1934)
Work 75-116
titled and signed in Korean (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
130.5 x 97 cm. (51 3/8 x 38 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1975
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner
Christie's, New York, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private collection, USA
Exhibited
New York, USA, Christie's, Structure and Space, 25 February – 26 March 2016
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Lot Essay

The rows of systematic marks that populate Cho Yong-Ik's paintings are identical yet individual, their creation motivated by the artist's deep interest in acts of meditation and repetition. Beginning in the 1940s, Cho began to create a series of paintings that involved applying a thin layer of paint onto canvas, and marking it with a scraper or finger to create marks in the wet pigment. Arranged in an orderly grid that conforms to the dimensions of the canvas, each mark is evidence of a single motion, forming a visual declaration of the artist's repeated movements.

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