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Title: 파문(波紋) ; Ripple
공성환 작가가 말하는 ‘추상’은 형상이 사라진다는 의미의 추상이 아니라, 눈앞의 물을 오래 바라보는 과정에서 현실의 구체성이 감각과 리듬, 빛과 떨림으로 전환되는 상태에 가깝다. 공성환에게 물을 그린다는 것은 대상을 설명하는 일이 아니라, 눈앞의 세계가 감각으로 해체되고 다시 회화로 응집되는 순간을 붙잡는 일이다. 그의 화면에서 추상은 형상의 부재가 아니라, 형상이 흔들리며 다른 감각으로 넘어가는 과정이다. 그러므로 공성환의 물은 사실적으로 보이지만, 그 안에서 조용히 추상으로 흐른다. 그것은 보이는 것의 끝에서 시작되는 또 하나의 풍경이며, 물의 표면을 빌려 드러나는 내면의 파문이다.
In KONG Sung hwan’s paintings, water appears clear and transparent, yet it can never be fully grasped. Stones beneath the surface emerge distinctly, only to shift with the movement of the water, while ripples begin to fade from the very moment they are formed. To paint water, then, is not merely to reproduce what is seen. Because water changes from moment to moment according to light, wind, and its surroundings, capturing it requires sustained observation and patient attention. KONG delicately holds the fleeting moment where clarity and blur meet.
His paintings are less realistic depictions than abstractions shaped through sensation and thought. Light resting on the surface of the water trembles in fine fragments; waves spread like an invisible breath; and forms within the transparent depth seem to appear, then slowly recede. By observing these subtle transformations, the artist translates natural scenery into a field of sensation.
The “abstraction” KONG Sung hwan speaks of is not one in which form disappears. Rather, it is a state in which the concrete reality before the eye is transformed, through the act of looking at water, into sensation, rhythm, light, and vibration. For KONG, painting water is not about explaining an object, but about capturing the moment when the visible world dissolves into sensation and gathers again as painting. In his work, abstraction is not the absence of form, but the process by which form trembles, shifts, and moves into another realm of perception. Thus, KONG Sung hwan’s water may appear realistic, yet within it, it quietly flows toward abstraction. It is another landscape that begins at the edge of the visible—an inner ripple revealed through the surface of water.
2022, 116.7x80.3cm, oil on canvas
파문2022, 116.7x80.3cm, oil on canvas
2024 ,112 x 162 cm, oil on canvas
From water2024 ,112 x 162 cm, oil on canvas
2024, 80.3 x 60.6 cm, oil on canvas
파문2024, 80.3 x 60.6 cm, oil on canvas
2025, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
파문2025, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
2025, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
파문 2025, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
2023, oil on canvas
파문2023, oil on canvas
2022, 116.7x80.3cm, oil on canvas
파문2022, 116.7x80.3cm, oil on canvas
2025, 72.7 x 53 cm, oil on canvas
파문2025, 72.7 x 53 cm, oil on canvas
90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
Water Grey90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
2020, 227x145.5cm, oil on canvas
from water2020, 227x145.5cm, oil on canvas
2024, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas
물에서2024, 90.9 x 65.1 cm, oil on canvas