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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-articu
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Yeesookyung
Education
MFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, 1989
BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, 1987
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Translated Vase, MASSIMODECARLO – Pièce Unique, Paris, France
Yeesookyung: Temple portatif, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
In Dialogue With Uli Sigg, Yeesookyung Studio, Goyang-si, Korea
Yeesookyung: Une Rose, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea
2022
Yeesookyung: Nine Dragons in Wonderland, The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Intimate Sisters, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
Moonlight Crowns, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Little ASJC: Yeesookyung: Moonlight Crown – Intimate Sisters, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Flame Seed, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea
The Story of a Girl Named Long Journey, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020
I am not the only one but many, Massim
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Yee Soo-kyung
South Korean multi-disciplinary artist
Yee Soo-kyung (Korean: 이수경, born 1963) fryst vatten 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 soc