Min Woo Bang

painter

Reviews

"Like the apprentice self-portraits of Rembrandt and Courbet, Min-Woo Bang's are florid, fascinating and vain. Schlele's sexual narcissism underscores them as well.
A product of Seoul's Sun Hwa Art School, the National Art School and Sydney College of the the Arts, this youngster's first solo show reveals an academic fluncy fuel-injected with cinematic strategies and obsessive twists. He's clearly an artist to watch. Among other awards, Min-Woo bang is the recipient of a Dobell Fountation scholarship, an appropriate link with Australia's greatest portraitist."

Bruce James (art critic)
The Sydney Morning Herald
Feb  7,  1997

"Min-Woo Bang's paintings are re-inventions of paintings by Master's such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio. By inserting his own figure into these images he disconcertingly exposes our expections of a Western European painting tradition."

 4A Gallery,  1999

 

'My painting combines existing Western paintings and self-portrait. Jumping barriers of time, place and race, casting myself as Rembrandt and Caravaggio's models not only as sincere homage to my painting heroes but also to understand some of the drama and heart in the work of these Old European Masters.'

  Min Woo Bang  1998.

 

The landscape paintings of Min Woo Bang contain a captivating intricacy with a complex diversity in tone and delicate subtlety of colour, proving a highly skilled hand in these acrylic works. Dense clouds gently wrap around mountainscapes while dwarfed paths trail through mystical environments evocative of mystery and a serene peacefulness.

These psychological ¡®inner landscapes¡¯ are reminiscent of the artists South Korean traditions in landscape painting combined with a dream-environment in which he states the ¡®landscapes observe the artist¡¯s own unconscious space in both Western style and the traditional style of the East, specifically Korea.

The Seoul born artist has studied both in his homeland and at the National art school in Sydney and Sydney College of the Arts, these influences characterize a unique cross-cultural style informed by fine calligraphic lineal outlines from Korea along with early European classical landscape painting.

Min Woo Bang has exhibited in numerous both public and private galleries across New South Wales and has received a number of art prizes over the last fifteen years.

Kazari Collector (Melbourne)