Park Seo-Bo is a Korean Dansaekhwa painter. Best known for his large-scale Minimalist paintings, his work conflates the ethos of traditional Korean culture with the formal language of linear abstraction. With a practice that is both meditative and violent, Seo-Bo employs a variety of techniques such as sewing hemp onto canvas stretched over junkyard metal, and burning and corroding the surface of his works with blowtorches and chemicals. “Even though my paintings may represent an idea about culture, the main focus is based on nature,” he has said. “I want to reduce the idea and emotion in my work to express only that. I want to reduce and reduce—to create pure emptiness.” Born in 1931 in Yecheon, South Korea, he...