Juxtapoz Journal – Leo Park is Prepping for a “Huge Fats Summer time”

“I like dynamic compositions,” Leo Park advised me final yr in an interview on Juxtapoz.com. “I like dance and choreography, and the fun of a physique taking part in round with its personal limitations.” That’s the place to start out with Park’s work, as he the viewer has a little bit of a dance of recognition in every canvas, a little bit of checking out the place the limbs and the faces and physique elements all match up and the way the maze of abstraction and familiarity be a part of. You see a determine, however it’s nearly a manifestation of motion. And it being summer season themed, as is his new solo present Huge Fats Summer time, on view at The Gap in NYC, the physique is naked and the backgrounds that of the Swedish countryside and the angles nearly extra jarring than ever. 

Because the gallery notes concerning the traditional compositions that Park is influenced by, the nude in panorama, “Park’s newest physique of labor is a postcard from the Scandinavian countryside, an invite to indulge and a deliciously decadent exploration of want.” It is each want and nearly a way of absolute audacity. Nudes within the countryside as an idea is sort of obscene in its audacity, and but right here we’re, with a few of Park’s greatest works up to now in ode to a traditional artwork kind. Additionally within the vein of Hilo Chen, who took the summer season theme and the nude physique in panorama to hyperrealistic heights, Park is experimenting  with an reverse impact of how far he can tangle the physique till you may’t fairly fathom what are seeing. —Evan Pricco