Park Seung Mo
Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, 2014
161 x 145 cm
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This work by Korean artist Park Seung Mo takes inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic painting ‘Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe’. Rather than an expressionist colour palette, this piece is rendered in monochrome, a signature of Park’s works and has a striking and evocative quality. ‘Van Gogh’ stares towards the viewer, drawing them in with his unceasing, haunting gaze. Park’s captivating portraits are created through a painstaking technique of overlapping layers of wire, and subsequently snipping away areas of mesh and netting to contribute depth, movement and dimensionality to his works.