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프린트버튼

• Duration: Sept. 16 – Sept. 27, 2020
• Place: Gallery 1, 1stfloorofYeojuWorldCeramicLivingwareGallery
• About the exhibition: Hwang Yea Sook has produced and exhibited furniture made of ceramics about “Enjoyment.” Of ceramic furniture objects, Hwang selected chairs for this exhibition. The artist has sculpted chairs of a new form and added colors to them. By combining sculpture and painting, Hwang created playful chairs with unique formativeness. Hwang Yea Sook’s works were selected for the solo exhibition in the rental space of Yeoju World Ceramic Livingware Gallery for 2020. Because the gallery is temporarily closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic, visitors can view the exhibition on the websites of KOCEF and social media.

Hwang Yea Sook works with fire.

Hwang is a potter who controls clay with fire, and she is warrior of fire.
Why?
Look at her sculpture fired at 1,250 °C and you will see why.
Her ceramic chairs are not merely chairs per se.
Beyond the functionality of chairs, her chairs project a soft and warm feminine image by the witty yellow dress and masculine image that looks like linga in Hinduism that symbolizes the god Shiva.

Isn’t it that subconscious desire for primitive clay erupted like lava when met with fire and then hardened? Thus, the crystallization of clay and glaze was completed in fire, like a hermaphrodite possessing both the womb of motherhood and energy of manhood together.

Hwang repeated the process of firing at a temperature as high as 1250°C to as low as 1,100°C, cooling, painting, removing the glaze with a grinder and then applying glaze more than four times.

It may be for that reason that the color of the glaze never looks isolated as commonly seen on ceramics fired at low temperature of 800°C - 900°C. Even though the chairs are painted in vivid colors, they create a calm ambience with effects of color imparting a painterly feeling.
To be sure, it is difficult to bake the clay objects in the color and shape the potter intended as clay is sensitive to heat and moisture.

Pottery-making is hard work that requires controlling the properties of clay and fire at the boundary of coincidence and inevitability, and this requires a great deal of patience with the highest level of sense.
What is more, the scale and weight of Hwang’s ceramic chairs are quite unlike ordinary ceramic objects.
Hwang’s ceramic chair sculptures are the fruit of her own creative work characterized by unsophisticated texture, refined glazing, beautiful shape, and stability without being crude.

All told, I think Hwang Yea Sook is a ceramic artist whose work is hotter than fire, who knows how to control fire.
I wonder if she is a warrior of fire.
- Text by Park Sang-hui, a sculptor -