변시지
A painter who passed through Osaka and Tokyo, then Seoul, and made his own language of painting in Jeju.
The color of dried grass. The bent line. The space left open. From one painting to one life.
Reading the paintings
Why are the sky and the sea the same color?Why do the people and the trees lean?Why does one small boat stay so long in the eye?
Following the color, the line, and the space left open,we come to the paintings of Byun Shi-Ji.
The Color of Dried GrassThe color that binds the sky and the sea. Sun and time remain in it.Solitude · 1995
The Bent LineThe trees lean, and so do the people. Along the bent line we see the posture of a body.The Old Pine and the Old Man · 1987
The Space Left OpenOne boat is small. Around it, the sea grows wide.The Sea of Jeju · 2011
From the 100 works
Fifty Stories
What Is Not Painted Holds Up What Is Painted — Fifty monologues that follow the works and life of Byun Shi-Ji. Read them like a book, or walk the paths between them.
Tropical Sun · 1983
The canvas had dried under the sun. At first I meant to add a little more blue.
Read the story →Oral history · 2005
Seven sessions and fourteen hours, from 3 December 2004 to 1 April 2005, in which the painter spoke directly about how his paintings were formed and what they meant.
'Then one day I was sitting on the shore, looking — and in the sunlight, white things went past white, and turned yellow. I saw it happen.
The local colour of a thing changes. …'
Byun Shi-Ji · oral history, 2005
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100 works · 34 languages
Now on · Exhibition
This site was made to share the work and the world of the painter Byun Shi-Ji.
