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프린트버튼

• Period : April 22 – September 3, 2023
• Venue : Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design (1F)

Disputes over the differences between arts and crafts, practicality and aesthetic appreciation, and tradition and modernity have long raged in contemporary ceramics. Vessels today increasingly integrate different perceptions by filling the gaps between them. This special exhibition looks at trends of vessels today and their values as crafts through selected works from the KOCEF collection with focus on prize-winning works of the International Competition of KICB and the Beautiful Korean Ceramics Competition.

Being a medium that can communicate by users’ senses of sight, touch, smell, and taste in everyday living let alone by sensory contemplation of its maker, a vessel is a symbol that represents the root of crafts and an object that contains limitless possibilities.

The first vessels were made in ancient times for practical purposes, such as serving or storing food. Today, contemporary ceramic vessels have value and meaning in so many different respects as they have become an art form for expression of consciousness, in addition to being decorative and symbolic objects. Also, the concept of vessels, which emerged from tradition at the dawn of civilization, eventually led to the creation of ceramic art, and it is interpreted in the context of crafts. Today, the concept of functionality of crafts includes changes in their symbolic use and in their practical uses in everyday living as well as the expansion of their concept. The ‘vessel’ that is at the center of such changes has manifested itself as a wide range of works of ceramic crafts in our daily living.

This special exhibition for 2022 of Selected Works from the Collection of KOCEF looks at the values of crafts and limitless possibilities of ceramics in modern life. On display are ‘vessels’ from the collection of KOCEF by contemporary artists who won the International Competition of KICB and the Beautiful Korean Ceramics Competition since 2000. Among diverse works that interpret the concept of ‘vessel’ are archetypical forms standing on the floor incasing interior space to allow for the containment of something and that embrace contemplation on the properties of materials, formativeness, expressiveness, functionality, and tradition. Viewers can look at the vessels more closely and see them as a familiar part of our everyday living.

Gallery 1 features Human Bowl Faces by Philippe BARDE, the Grand Prize winner of KICB 2005. His work is about social confrontation and conflict through important issues of ceramic art in the context of the blurring of the boundaries between ceramics for use and ceramics as expression. It was the first work for which the International Competition awarded the grand prize for an entry in the category of ceramics for use. Also on display are The Architectural Volume by Bodil MANZ, the Grand Prize winner of the International Competition 2007, and grand prize winning works from Beautiful Korean Ceramics competitions including White Porcelain Basin by Han Jeong-yong, and Dam by Kim Sang-Man. These works manifest the attitudes of the makers towards ‘vessel’ and enable the audience to see an exhibition of mutual harmony that transcends tradition and modernity, practicality and aesthetic appreciation, and expression and contemplation.

Gallery 2 presents works of design that consider beauty, use, and functionality in everyday living. Works on display here include Sole by Masanobu IDO, Party! Party! by Lee Jihye, Fine dining-Pulse by Stefanie Hering Esslinger, and Theres Still Life by Simon Ward. These works afford viewers a glimpse into the role of ‘vessel,’ which has become a part of everyday living, and what ceramic art looks like in modern times.

We hope that this exhibition will serve as an opportunity for the audience to become immersed in a world of senses connoted by vessels that have the nature and identity of contemporary ceramics for use in our everyday living.

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