Incollect Magazine Issue 7

Incollect Magazine 91 Chae Sung-Pil DUMONTEIL Korean artist Chae Sung-Pil likes to paint water. His recent Portrait d’eau series of paintings made of natural pigment and other materials on canvas are presented as portraits of water in motion, but given the amorphous nature of the subject matter the paintings take on the properties of abstract compositions. They evoke ebbs and flows of water through vast swirling brushstrokes of vivid blue paint with tufted white tips simulating foamy oxygen bubbles in the water. Waves come to mind, crashing against one another and water droplets flying into the air in a variegated spray. These are marvelously dynamic, rhythmic paintings that dazzle. Chae Sung-Pil (b. 1972) Portrait d’eau (230506), 2023 Natural pigment on canvas 45.67 x 35.04 inches Dumonteil, Paris, France Available through Incollect.com