Mystery Plays - Link Choi

The familiar visual vocabulary of religious paintings is displaced by the enigmatic symbols of an intensely personal mythology.
Link takes classic legends, bible stories and fables and re-tells them in a contemporary style with a vibrant creative insight that brings the characters to life. He believes these epic and ancient stories belong to all people of all cultures. There is a thread of truth resonating through mythic and religious tales that connects them. They all share the defining elements of the human experience.
Link is part of a new generation of artists bringing digital effects into the arena of fine art. One such effect involves scanning his skillful gestural sketches into a computer and using digital brushstrokes drawing on traditional painting techniques to build up breathtaking digital paintings.
His methods of working are in perfect synthesis with his content; traditional legends are contemporised, and painted using contemporised traditional techniques.
The bringing together of the digital and fine art worlds liberates each from their preconceptions, just as bringing ancient fables and stories to us with a contemporary twist liberates the stories from their romanticism and gifts the epic characters back their relatable punch.
What results are beautiful paintings that hold deep and reflective truths, presented with all the perceptive curiosity of Link’s joyfully creative take on life.

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