Bahk Seonghi

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About the artwork

Bahk Seonghi creates art that studies the elaborate relationship between human culture and nature. In this particular installation, Bahk uses his identifiable charcoal piecing technique to create the visual of three potted plants dangling near a wall. Raw tree branches were introduced in this piece, to complement with the natural concept the artist adhere to. For Bahk, charcoal is both a symbolic representation of a tree reborn, and a paradoxical exposition of its death. The dead tree branches portray the ‘life’ growing out of the potted planted, formed by a cluster of charcoal. The composition evokes our thought on the transient quality of life and rebirth, as the shrub seems to grow on the remnants of the dead, metamorphosed body of dead trees. Bahk achieves this philosophical synopsis from an intricate yet uncomplicated orchestra of essential natural materials.

About the artist

Bahk Seong Ghi, born in 1966 in Seoul, Korea, is known for his large scale sculptures in charcoal, stainless steel and wood. He received his masters degree in Chung-Ang University, majoring in Sculpture at the Fine Arts Department in Seoul before continuing his training as a sculptor at the Accademia di Belle Arti Brera, in Milan, Italy. Bahk has been represented in over 20 solo exhibitions all over the globe and more than 150 group exhibitions worldwide, collected by several organizations worldwide and has received multiple awards over the course of his career.   
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