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Korean Contemporary Ceramics
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June Lee
Today as history of tomorrowJune Lee’s Today as history of tomorrow ceramic series involves researching indigenous patterns of cultures of different countries in the past, and applying it to contemporary shapes, patterns and images of contemporary art widely used today by searching on the internet. Such patterns and images are individually drawn by hand on fragmented pieces of ceramic using thread and under glaze. Finally, these broken fragments are put together into the final outcome of a vase (Korean crock), which will signify today as a history of tomorrow.
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"I regard ceramic as an indicator of history. However, would people living 100 years from today be able to assume the region, cultural sphere and period of the ceramic of today? Elements indigenous to particular cultural spheres or specific regions are gradually becoming blurred, and slowly mixing with the present culture."
June Lee
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June Lee, Today as history of Tomorrow, 2020, thread and paint on ceramic, 33 x 24 x 18 cm.© June Lee
"I don’t wish to categorize my work as craft, textile art, fiber art, sculpture or installation. I think that one’s medium or methodology can always change."
June Lee
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Ju Sekyun
Tracing Drawing seriesThe critical awareness in Ju Sekyun’s work can be found in his creative response to tradition, norm and representation. In his Tracing Drawing Series the artist collects images of treasure of ceramics from the Internet, and then draws those images on plain white ceramics with a pencil. The combination of these images from various sources creates a gap between the drawn images and the original ceramic pieces. Ju has been seeking ways to personalize the enforced meaning of an institutionalized culture. He is looking into creating a new system of meaning in which the tradition from the past and the present memory, universal norms and individual reality, public signs and private meaning are intertwined.
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Ju Sekyun, Tracing Drawing 2019-3, 2019, pencil drawing on ceramics (urethane coating), 50 x 50 cm.© Ju Sekyun
"Tradition is one of the few standards of measurement I have chosen to reconstruct as part of my work. We commonly assume tradition is fixated and unmoving. However, I consider tradition to have fluid and mobile qualities. I believe that mankind exists somewhere in between fixation and fluidity."
Ju Sekyun
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Myung Nam An
Eye seriesMyung Nam An is a ceramic artist and designer-maker, based in London. Myung Nam An’s incredibly intricate and detailed wall ceramics are beautiful, bright, colourful, exciting, funky & very desirable. Myung's sculptures tell stories using symbols which are universal. You can interpret these in your own way to tell your own tales, and evoke different moods and emotions. She explores abstract appropriated images from our culture and translates these onto the surface of her sculptures. Each of which are steps in her path toward a personal and unique approach to clay.
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Myung Nam An, Eyes, 2014, ceramic, 7 x 7 x 5 cm.
© Myung Nam An
" I find ceramic to be the most versatile material and it is suited to express my ideas. Working in clay is really deep and has much to interest me: philosophy, technique - so much. Everything that surrounds and excites me is automatically processed and transformed into the final result: an artwork."
Myung Nam An
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