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By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
Forget your previous experiences visiting all those art galleries and painting exhibitions. Watching the ``Drawing Show,'' you will see how much you can benefit from paintings.
The Drawing Show, a combination of painting and performance, will go on stage at Ziller Hall in Daehangno on July 11.
It is the first time a show how tried to reveal the process of painting on stage.
For a 90-minute running time, a total of 10 paintings will be reborn as the stage transforms into a canvas.
The audience can get to see how the blank canvas turns into a flamboyant masterpiece, not just looking at it but actually experiencing this tremendous show.
The show is based on paintings and also adopts various art techniques such as carving, stamping, frottage, marbling and other new techniques invented by the art director. The show introduces flower drawing, light drawing and luminous drawing.
It shows a waterfall painting in which a black and white ink painting turns into a colorful painting with a magic-like dynamic moving waterfall.
Reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, the renowned action painter for his painting ``Number 5'' the most expensive artwork in painting history, a performer draws an abstract paining with a finger drawing technique.
Also, the performer draws a painting of Sungnyemun, National Treasure No. 1, which burnt down in February, on stage with special effects to reproduce the fire.
The show was first concieved by Kim Jin-gyu, who began studying the drawing show in 1998 to express the human desire and minds through painting.
``The work is the happiest and most beautiful moment a painter experiences. How can I show the process to other people to give back this happiness?'' Kim said in a press release. It took 10 years for the artist to realize his dream on stage, according to Pentatonic, the production company of the show.
Kim Hyun-ah, marketing manager of the company, said that the show consists of single episodes, along with the drawing performance by a painter and other professional actors.
``Previous arts performances were like an experience exhibit or a sand drawing for about 10-15 minutes. But this show is the perfect art performance which lasts for about 90 minutes with the paintings, delivering the messages and moving the audiences,'' she said
The show will exhibit a whole new paradigm for how to appreciate the paintings, she said.
The drawing show will open at Ziller Hall in Daehangno on July 11 on an open run.
Tickets cost 20,000 to 30,000 won. For more information, call (02) 766-7848.
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