South Korea

DRAWING SHOW

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.

It is the first time a show had 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 painting 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 conceived by Kim Jin-gyu, who began studying the drawing show in 1998 to express the human desire and minds through painting.