Goheung Buncheong Culture Museum Opens Buncheong Ware Resident Artist Achievement Exhibition

Over 100 Buncheong Ware Pieces
Reinterpreted by Contemporary Ceramic Artists
on Display

[Goheung=Asia Economy, Honam News Bureau, Shim Jungwoo] The Goheung Buncheong Culture Museum (headed by Mayor Song Gwi-geun) announced on the 25th that it has opened the "2021 Resident Artist Achievement Exhibition" to share the results of its 2021 Buncheong Ware Resident Artist Program.

Since 2019, Goheung County has operated the Buncheong Ware Resident Artist Program to preserve and continue the culture of the Yundaeri Buncheong Ware, which is designated as Historic Site No. 519.

The "Buncheong Ware Resident Artist Project" is a program that supports ceramic artists to reside in Yundaeri for a certain period and engage in creative activities. In return, the resident artists present their works at the achievement exhibition and donate a certain number of pieces to the Buncheong Culture Museum.

This planned exhibition features three artists: Kim Seolhwa, Yoon Junho, and Choi Hantteut. Each artist created Buncheong ware works using mixed clay from Yundaeri, reflecting their individual perspectives on life.

The exhibition demonstrates that art ("Buncheong ware"), which captures life ("me") contemplating within nature ("Yundaeri"), ultimately converges into beauty ("Mi") through the harmony of nature and the self in contemplation. Therefore, the theme of this exhibition is "MeMi (Me)."

Kim Seolhwa's work, titled "Buncheong Goheung Folktale Inlaid Plate," features a Buncheong ware plate engraved with the Goheung folktale of "Yongchu and Yong Rock." The plate was intentionally broken to incorporate the texture of nature.

On a large plate measuring 126×126 cm, Kim used the inlay technique to delicately depict the scene of poet Ryu shooting an arrow at a dragon. The natural texture represents the passage of time, and the artist explained that the work embodies the memories of the clay and hands that built up the piece, as well as all the circumstances involved.

Yoon Junho presented works under the theme "The Life I Live + Goheung," expressing "my current Buncheong in Yundaeri." Using the sgraffito technique, his pieces depict Goheung's nature and scenery as seen by the artist, including the Naro Space Center, citron, eggplant, cucumber, and tomato.

In particular, the "Inner Self" Buddha statue was created under the theme of the flow and traces of time, and was decorated using the transfer printing technique with Yundaeri slip.

Yoon also showcased works that modernly redesign Yundaeri Buncheong ware by utilizing the brush stroke and slip techniques unique to Yundaeri Buncheong ware.

Choi Hantteut expressed the beginning of civilization and the long history of experience. The artist explained that the forms in the work represent their own image toward the past, present, and future. Choi created and stacked small vessels, then visualized civilization as books placed on top of them.

Meanwhile, this exhibition will run until January 23, 2022 (Sunday).

A Goheung County official stated, "We will continue to promote the 'Buncheong Ware Resident Artist Project' to contribute to the preservation and development of traditional culture, and will do our best to make Buncheong ware a part of daily life, modernize it, and globalize it."

Goheung = Asia Economy, Honam News Bureau, Shim Jungwoo sevenshim@asiae.co.kr

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