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Hwang Myung is a young Korean artist, a student of the school of Fine Arts of Dijon, conducted by Yan Pei Ming. His work shows the identity crisis of our contemporary society by being inspired by anonymous faces. He operates from photographs but his portraits are not for all that true imitations. His technical virtuosity enables him to give up with the mimicking in order to subject his models to imperceptible distortions which bring out a specific feature or to emphasize an expression without summon up any the feeling.
By being unaware of their banality and their own ignorance, they put on who observe them, a singular expression where everyone can identify. Hwang find these pitiful swarms in the standardized industrial societies, real cemeteries of the beauty where the world disappears without traces. By this way, his work is political. For him, the society is out of breath but the painting is not, in fact, it stays a personal approach, able to produce from the same photograph, very different portraits the artist’s wish. In the painting, there is not a mechanical reproduction from the moment that an artist is able to give back the impression which strike him in his work.
Nevertheless, Hwang remains above all Korean by giving back the differences who a non oriental cannot perceive. In his mind, the occidental man known as white has a pink skin and he shows us all the variations and shades.
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