Sculpture :
Location : Cardero Park, Vancouver
Media : Ceramic
Like many young emerging Korean artists, Yee Soo-Kyung's work employs a variety of disciplines to realize her goal of transforming traditional Korean objects and concepts into new contemporary forms. This piece is part of a recent series "Translated Vase Series" in which the Seoul-based artist uses hundreds of discarded porcelain fragments and shards made by master Korean ceramicists to create her own "recycled" creative work.
The familiar ceramic designs and surfaces, the fragility of the material and vessel forms are deeply embedded in the Korean unconscious; they are also recognized internationally as a central part Korean cultural identity. In the process of building new forms out of the fragments of traditional Korean ceramics into entirely new sculptures, the traditional form is transformed and translated, as the artists forces the curved fragments of ceramics together in ways that are both new and that also retain much of the aesthetic of the original ceramic forms. How to be modern and yet retain an appreciation for traditional forms and values is addressed in both the process and visual presence of the work, which also suggests a nostalgia for traditional forms and design.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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Ceramic Forms
Artist :Yee Soo-Kyung
Location : Cardero Park, Vancouver
Media : Ceramic
Like many young emerging Korean artists, Yee Soo-Kyung's work employs a variety of disciplines to realize her goal of transforming traditional Korean objects and concepts into new contemporary forms. This piece is part of a recent series "Translated Vase Series" in which the Seoul-based artist uses hundreds of discarded porcelain fragments and shards made by master Korean ceramicists to create her own "recycled" creative work.
The familiar ceramic designs and surfaces, the fragility of the material and vessel forms are deeply embedded in the Korean unconscious; they are also recognized internationally as a central part Korean cultural identity. In the process of building new forms out of the fragments of traditional Korean ceramics into entirely new sculptures, the traditional form is transformed and translated, as the artists forces the curved fragments of ceramics together in ways that are both new and that also retain much of the aesthetic of the original ceramic forms. How to be modern and yet retain an appreciation for traditional forms and values is addressed in both the process and visual presence of the work, which also suggests a nostalgia for traditional forms and design.
For more information visit the artwork page on www.vblearn.ca
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