“The work of Don-Young Cho now appears in the pure nudity of its essential truth. It is the barometric writing of the existential impulses that, from one instant to the next, punctuate the flow of vital energy with the delicate luminosity of those little match flames evoked by Andersen.

Don-Young Cho is a man who thinks and feels deeply, which is why he has chosen to endow his painting with the allure and the value of the highest of ambitions: the artist is the stenographer and poet of the vibrant fabric of his existential drives and the perfect biographer of his instinct, or rather, of the ephemera of his instinct. His work is a constant self-portrait of his inner life, and the constant presence of those little flames reminds us of the rigor of a consciousness that is unfailingly alert.

Pierre Restany