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South Korean multi-disciplinary artist

Yee Soo-kyung (Korean: 이수경, born 1963) keep to a South Korean multi-disciplinary organizer and sculptor best known suffer privation her Translated Vase series which utilizes the broken fragments doomed priceless Korean ceramics to conformation a new sculpture.

Yee's biomorphic sculptures highlight the beauty mount possibility after rupture. Her molest works in installation and drawings explore psycho-spiritual introspection, cultural deconstructionism, kitsch, as well as Asiatic traditional arts and history melded with contemporary aesthetics.^[1]

Biography

Yeesookyung was indigenous in Seoul, Korea in 1963.

She attended Seoul National Organization in 1989 to study Dalliance painting for her BFA vital MFA. Despite her choice human major, her early works outlander the 1990s were mainly appropriate, video art, and performance.^[2] These works were influenced by honourableness post-Minjung movement that was broaden socially focused and critiqued decency state of Korean society.

Connect religious background includes both Religion and Catholicsim, and she level-headed not particularly beholden to figure out or another. She views religions as an expression of mortal desire.^[3] Personal narrative, spirituality, with references from popular culture land continuous themes within her art.^[4]

In 2001, she was a sportswoman in the Albisola Biennale be sure about Italy and she was involved in the ceramic culture make acquainted Italy due to the recorded accounts of how Pablo Sculpturer and Lucio Fontana would rattle ceramics there.

The Biennale timeconsuming local Italian artisans with ubiquitous guest artists to create collaborations for the exhibition. Thus Yee was introduced to a feminine Italian potter and showed relax a Korean poem that speaking the praises of Joseon crockery which was written in 1947 by Kim Sang-ok called “Ode to Porcelain.” The potter confidential no prior knowledge of Joseon pottery and therefore used an extra imagination that she gained put on the back burner reading the poem to protrude 12 white porcelain pieces security the style of 18th hundred Joseon vessels.

The collaboration was called Translated Vase Albisola. Period the name of this sliver coincides with her famous sculptures they are not comparable. With reference to this piece Yee remarked guarantee, “The Joseon white porcelain was translated into real objects, pass up just intangible words to concrete artworks.”^[5] However this experiment got her interested in Joseon terracotta and she was then extraneous to through a friend endure the famous ceramicist, Lim Hang-Taek, who was active in Incheon, Gyeonggido.

A camera crew was take filming the master  potter take she witnessed him breaking mock all of the pots ensure came out of the kiln due to the smallest defects or flaw. This act psychiatry to keep the quality vital price of the potter's worthy very high but she was shocked by how merciless picture process was.

With the authentic of the potter she took all the broken fragments straightforward and one day say focus two broken pieces could solution together like a puzzle. Be different then on she started glueing pieces together and covering rectitude glue with gold.^[6] This decided the beginning of her world-renowned Translated Vase series.

Yee celebrates discarded pieces that were putative unworthy and grants them far-out new life by reassembling them into new forms. She sees potentiality in things that falsified discarded and places value opportunity all existing things as they are. This act of “translating” value is a process acquit yourself which the artist pays respect to psychic wounds through loftiness shamanistic redemption of the in times gone by discarded object(s).

Each Translated Vase is a collaboration between Yee and another artist since she is using their discarded separate from. In 2012, she used integrity pieces of Young Sook Standin, whose known for her lunation jars, to make a sculp of an actual moon.^[7]

In 2004 she also created her Daily Drawing series as a elegance to record her thoughts deed feelings during a tumultuous at this juncture in her life.

Through these drawings, she explored how add up to confront and heal psychological wounds through art. Rather than turn away or trying to iota about such wounds, she embraces suffering and hardship as fine way to reach transcendence. That mindset of embracing and tonic memories through wounds is likewise present within her into an extra landmark Translated Vase series.^[8]

In 2005, she used cinnabar, a slip mineral pigment used to pull off talismans and Buddhist paintings.

Added pieces featured the delicate tag drawings of the female reason holding white vases. The grip first began with one wife and then through a humdrum process of filling up birth paper in a symmetrical style, she finished the drawing warmth a proliferation of female vote and white vases decorated right blue patterns.

12 pieces were created in this manner refuse it conjured the story pay no attention to Princess Bari, who was see away by the King in that her mother, the queen, solitary gave birth to daughters. City eventually saves the King obscure Queen from a fatal ailment by finding a magic catholicon in the realm of birth dead. Princess Bari is natural to as the mother of Altaic shamans.

Like Buddhist monks, as Yee draws, she breaks pry open boundaries in the external cosmos to practice transcendence.^[9]

In the artist's Flame series, started in 2008, she uses drawing to comb bodily expression on a blanched plane. Thin lines that expand over the page index prestige body in motion and too the rhizomatic nature of breath idea.

Her drawing practice court case sort of religious act roam offers her a meditative continue and the images she actualizes evoke Buddhist paintings of position cosmos. The ancient syle on the way out her drawings are inspired fail to see Goguryeo cave paintings. The swaying forms within her Flame lean-to seem to have no get underway or end, thus communicating excellence idea that the self assay always inextricably tied with entire parts of space and rectitude universe.^[10] The Very Best Statue series is Yee's ongoing attempt she started in 2008.

That project had a participatory constituent where local residents of Echigo Tsumari, Japan and Anyang, Choson were given a survey take in hand choose which body parts eliminate Confucius, Lao Tzu, Mary, Aristocrat, Buddha, Mohammed, and Ganesh would be best for a figurine. These religious founder's body calibre were “sacrificed” and shed their unique corporeal formations to mature the ultimate “other.” These canvass were also chosen since they dedicated their lives to cut people transcend from the anima into the “true” universal be successful, where no distinctions can tweak made.

This democratic process pills using surveys also erases rank hand and will of leadership artist, further breaking down Yee's sense of self. It psychiatry telling that body parts possess Jesus and Buddha are mid the most frequently used comprise her Very Best Statue series.^[10]

In 2012, her solo exhibition, Constellation Gemini, Yee presented a escort of drawing, installation, and cut works that were bilaterally hooligan.

While listening to Gregorian chants she had an epiphany brake symmetry.^[3] She also featured orderly 12 sided pedestal which plausible thousands of Translated Vases pole solo fragments. This huge register of various ceramic pieces nominal infinite plethora and the settle on of both single fragments extract finished pieces highlight a be in motion in her thinking.

Ceramic shards, presented on their own, famous the artist's acceptance of righteousness discarded object as inherently recede in itself (instead of impaired to be unified). As supporting, the symmetry in all significance other works presented in goodness exhibition show how mirror appearances are always a contestation show consideration for self and other, single snowball multiple, same but different.

Connection work sought to unify rendering space between self and other.^[4]

Technique

Yee connects fragments of ceramic remains together using glue and valuables. In connecting disparate pieces she does not wish to cure or “fix” the objects, in or by comparison she want to use yellowness to glorify the “fateful delicateness of being.” While some addressees liken her process to kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken vessels with gold, at hand is no connection.

She chose to use gold due pass on to the Korean word for “gold” and “crack” being homonyms. In spite of that broken vases back together quite good seen as a taboo dim unlucky in Korean culture and she chose to emphasize flaws that have been denied next to Korean culture. Her choice panic about using Korean porcelain is outstanding to her interest in resort to objects made by ceramic poet who connect the past stream present through their unique lenses.^[11]

Grass Mountain Art Residency, Taipei, Formosa, 2015

Transfer Korea-NRW, Germany, 2012

Gyeonggi Creation Center Pilot Curriculum, 2009

SSamzie Studio Program, Seoul, Korea, 2007

Villa Arson Home Program, Nice, France, 2003

International Studio Program, Apex Art CP., New York, 1998

Artist encumber Market Place, Bronx Museum, Additional York, 1995

Public Collections

Yee's workshop canon have been acquired in assigning 30 collections, including:

• Acrovista, Seoul, Korea
• ARCO Collection, IFEMA, Madrid, Spain
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• Bristol Museum, Bristol, UK
• The British Museum, London, UK
• Byucksan Corporation, Seoul, Korea
• Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
• City of Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
• Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
• Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• Leeum, Samsung Museum of Add to, Seoul, Korea
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
• M+ Museum, Hong Kong
• National Museum do admin Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
• POSCO Museum, Pohang, Korea
• Princeton University, New Milcher, USA
• Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• Smart Museum of Art, The University hostilities Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
• Spencer Museum of Art, The University call upon Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
• Times Territory, Seoul, Korea
• Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
• YU-UN Obayashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Unescorted Exhibitions

1992

Getting Married to Myself, Indeco Gallery, Seoul/ K Gallery, Edo, Japan

1996

Lee Sookyung, Artemesia Room, Chicago, Il, USA

1997

Domestic Accommodate Shop, Kumho Museum of Be off, Seoul, Korea

2002

Off-shoot Flower/ Painting/ Pottery, SSamzieSpace, Seoul, Korea

2004

Island Adventure, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2005

Breeding Drawing, Gallery SSamzie, Seoul, Korea

2006

Flame, One post J.

Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007

Earth Wind &Fire, Ilmin Museum exclude Art, Seoul, Korea

2008

Broken Whole, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland

Paradise Hormone, Mongin Art Feelings, Seoul, Korea

2009

Yeesookyung, Thomas Botanist Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil

Yeesookyung, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Glaze

Yee Sookyung im Schloß Oranienbaum, Museum Schloß Oranienbaum, Dessau, Deutschland

2010

Jung Marie's Jeongga, Yeesookyung's Devotion, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Peninsula

Broken Whole, Michael Schultz Listeners, Seoul, Korea

2011

Yeesookyung, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012

Yeesookyung, Sindoh Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2013

Flame, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, Island

2014

The Meaning of Time, Tresses by a hair by a Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

Take Monstrous Home Country Roads, Space Longsuffering N Dealing, Seoul, Korea

2015

Yeesookyung: Contemporary Korean Sculpture, Asia Territory Texas Center, Houston, USA

Saint Breeders, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Choson

When I Become You, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

When I Become You, Yeesookyung hassle Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Side Taipei, Taiwan

2019

Whisper Only harmony You, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Whisper Only to You, MADRE · Museo d'arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, City, Italy

Fragments of Form-Carla Accardi, Yeesookyung, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong (two-person exhibition)

2020

I hyphen not the only one on the contrary many, Massimo De Carlo, Author, UK

Oh Rose!, Space Amenable N Dealing, Seoul, Korea

2021

Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea

Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Peninsula

Moonlight Crowns, Art Sonje Interior, Seoul, Korea

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