- Overview
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The major works of Hundertwasser pass through the innocent eyes of the poet Seo Yoonhoo and settle as ideas on the art of love, friendship and writing.
- Book Intro
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Hundertwasser, an artist who dreamed of becoming a hundred rivers
Seo Yoonhoo, a poet who writes a life that resembles poetry
The site where art sympathizes with poetry and paintings
The sixth book in the Poetry Submerged in Type series, a collection of essays written in verse and illustrations. The poet Seo Yoonhoo, who writes a life resembling poetry, meets the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who never stopped returning art to nature. Alma’s new book, Sunlight Tenant, is a collection of essays that shows what kind of ideas and art the unique art world of Hundertwasser changes into in the life of a young poet working hard to live his life here and now. Hundertwasser’s paintings and architecture are well known for their radical themes and methodology, but Seo Yoonhoo was moved at the attitude of the artist, who wanted to fundamentally restore the relationship between humans and nature more than anything. Hundertwasser’s most famous works, such as 10002 Nights Homo Humus Come Va How Do You Do and Regentag on Waves of Love pass through the innocent eyes of the poet and settle as ideas on the art of love, friendship and writing.
After Seo Yoonhoo saw the Spittelau incinerator that Hundertwasser designed during his trip to Austria, Seo brought Hundertwasser’s words and art into his own life. The young poet turned his desk into a “miniature of nature” and “a hand mirror that clearly shows me,” and said, “A really good poem is no different from gazing at a house that knows where the wind blows and where the sunlight lands and has its windows sprawled open.” The poet always thinks of his grandmother, with whom he lived when he was young, as his first reader, and he confesses that the summer he spent with his grandmother became “a pattern inscribed in me somewhere” and that it melted “something cold and frozen in me.” Thus the poet’s life and poetry and Hundertwasser come together beautifully.
Kook Dongwan, another artist who creates a unique nature, explored the images of Hundertwasser and the poetic world of Seo Yoonhoo and expressed his findings through his paintings. Kook used the letters “H-u-n-d-e-r-t-w-a-s-s-e-r” as the backbone, adding colors and forms from nature to create an image resembling Hundertwasser’s buildings. This image is creatively dismantled (collage) and the results are inserted throughout the collection. Readers seeing Kook Dongwan’s paintings will end up deep in thought in the rich images created by the colors and forms while their eyes remain glued to the paintings.
- About the Author
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Seo Yoonhoo
Seo Yoonhoo was born in 1990 and grew up in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do. He began his career as a writer after his work debuted in the monthly, Hyundae Si (Contemporary Poetry) in 2009. He has published the collections of poetry, All the Younger Siblings of Someone and Vacation Mansion; a collection of travel essays, The Earth after School; and a collection of poetry with cartoons, Specific Boy. Recently, he has been recording A List of Things I’m Glad I Quit. He is looking around at the time past, which was rich with the joy of things not done.
Kook Dongwan
Kook Dongwan ponders his attitude toward the unconscious and portrays the moments he meets in the process with paintings, books and sculptures. He held his first solo exhibition at Gallery Factory (2011) and was an artist in residence at Glenfiddich, Scotland (2012), and at Geumcheon Art Factory (2016-2018). He runs an independent publisher, Boundary Books, and has published books including 『Things Recovered from a Sunken Passenger Ship』, 『The automatic message』, and『Some dreams don’t come and some dreams don’t go.』. www.kookdongwan.com