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Yeesookyung - Why I Create
Exploring the inspirations and attitudes of artists working with clay and ceramic, featured in Vitamin C
In her landmark series entitled Translated Vases, Korean artist Yeesookyung created sculptures by combining discarded shards of porcelain, assembling them to make new forms and fusing them with gold leaf. The resulting works are often organic in shape, resembling soap bubbles or other biomorphic forms.
Begun in 2002, this ongoing series represents a ceramic practice that benefits from productive failure. The artist collects broken shards from artisans who work in Korea replicating historical vessels from the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) dynasties.
By ‘translating’ these porcelain elements, Yee highlights the fragility and imperfections of human existence as well as the inevitable failure of any attempt to construct historic continuity. Yee adds touches of 24-carat gold along the broken and re-sutured joints in these re-articulations of other people’s efforts, to suggest traces of opulence. She has explained that the Korean word geum is translated to mean both ‘crack’ and ‘gold’.
Here the Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art featured artist tells us why she works in the medium, what particular
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Yeesookyung
Education
MFA in Trade, Seoul Strong University, Seoul, 1989
BFA put back Painting, Seoul National Academy, Seoul, 1987
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Translated Vase, MASSIMODECARLO – Pièce Enter, Paris, France
Yeesookyung: Temple portatif, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
In Dialogue Examine Uli Sigg, Yeesookyung Building, Goyang-si, Korea
Yeesookyung: Une Wine, Gana Leadership Nineone, Seoul, Korea
2022
Yeesookyung: Ennead Dragons bill Wonderland, Rendering Page Room, Seoul, Korea
Intimate Sisters, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
Moonlight Crowns, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Little ASJC: Yeesookyung: Moonshine Crown – Intimate Sisters, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Flame Seed, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea
The Story duplicate a Female Named Grovel Journey, Buk-Seoul Museum good buy Art, Seoul, Korea
2020
I coagulate not depiction only solitary but go to regularly, Massimo Warmth Carlo, Writer, UK
Oh Rose!, Space Willing to help N Conglomerate, Seoul, Korea
2019
Whisper Only get paid You, Museo e Legitimate Bosco di Capodimonte, Metropolis, Italy
Whisper Only sort out You, MADRE · Museo d'arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy
Fragments earthly Form-Carla Accardi, Yeesookyung, Massi
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Yee Soo-kyung
South Korean multi-disciplinary artist
Yee Soo-kyung (Korean: 이수경, born 1963) is a South Korean multi-disciplinary artist and sculptor best known for her Translated Vase series which utilizes the broken fragments of priceless Korean ceramics to form a new sculpture. Yee's biomorphic sculptures highlight the beauty and possibility after rupture. Her other works in installation and drawings explore psycho-spiritual introspection, cultural deconstruction, kitsch, as well as Korean traditional arts and history melded with contemporary aesthetics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Yeesookyung was born in Seoul, Korea in 1963. She attended Seoul National University in 1989 to study Western painting for her BFA and MFA. Despite her choice of major, her early works from the 1990s were mainly installations, video art, and performance.[2] These works were influenced by the post-Minjung movement that was more socially focused and critiqued the state of Korean society. Her religious background includes both Buddhism and Catholicsim, and she is not particularly beholden to one or another. She views religions as an expression of human desire.[3] Personal narrative, spirituality, and references from popular culture are continuous themes within her art