HYDERABAD: Healing, an exhibition of abstract art by a South Korean artist, Jeong Ja Seo, brings to mind the dearth of this genre in Hyderabad. There are innumerable artists practicing figurative art in the city, but only a handful of them profess the non-figurative. The works of Seo are vibrant. She embraces colour as she would experience the atmosphere. Her palette is stunning with the dominance of magenta. Green, blue, yellow, red all live harmoniously on her canvas. Sometimes, the patches of white quieten the exuberance of colours. But, it certainly donates a seriousness of a painterly quality.
The bright strokes overlapped over one another, nudges the attention of the spectator, demanding the eye to absorb all that is dormant and layered one under the other. Infused with a certain sense of dynamism, the process of the artist gyrates between the psychedelic spectrum and at times swings to some deeply complementary colours.
The abstraction of the artist may be in conjunction with the American expressionists, but there is a certain geometry at work. The impastos and the impressions of bubble wraps add on to the character of her working style. She says, “Abstract art is difficult to describe in words but dissimilar from the pleasure of observing a painting which clearly depicts what’s been drawn.” Her paintings are cheerful and therapeutic. An artist, educator and colour therapist, she is a representative of the Korean Fine Arts Association. The exhibition is on till October 9 at Kalakriti Art Gallery.