Main themes addressed
In my exhibitions, I usually present my workpieces by themes.
Here are a few:
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Korean jars
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HANG HA LI – CHANG DOK
A "hang ha li", or Korean jar, has a very strong cultural overtone in Korea.
A "chang dok" is a set of "hang ha li", put in half circles, the smaller in front, the bigger at the back. Hi Suk's approach is double: to carry on the "hang ha li" tradition, and
to turn them into present day objects.
A few words about technics:
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Our endangered planet
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OUR ENDANGERED PLANET
Today, everyone knows that man damages his environment, and that we reached a stage where we have to choose between irreversible degradations OR take new directions to find a sustainable balance between man and nature. To emphasize this idea, artists have a role to play.
That's why the ceramicist Hi Suk has created a set of artworks aiming at showing today's earth state.
Art in general and pottery in particular, through its many firings, has a sizeable carbon weight.
The artist is then inclined to make up for this carbon weight by using in her daily life as much as possible
clean energy (solar energy, air heat pump, photo-voltaic electricity, rain water recycling,
refuse composting, hybrid car... and so on).
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BOTTLES
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BOTTLES
With enough “if”, we could put Paris into a bottle!
Dictionary view:
Artist's view:
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Eggs
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EGGS
The egg, one of life original shapes, is not only a volume endowed with remarkable mathematical features, it is also a shape bringing peace and harmony to mind. An egg gives life. But a soft boiled egg is food. After consumption, what remains beyond a chipped shell is a contrast between the original shape harmony AND the wounds and marks of destruction left by the consumer. This contrast is what the artist tries to put forward through these huge exotic and colored eggs.
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Teapots
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TEAPOTS
My teapots are definitely more for the eyes than for making tea, though this could be possible. But their best quality, by far, is their always re-invented shapes, sizes and colors.
In a few words, not chocolate teapots but rather fairy tale teapots.
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Bamboos
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BAMBOOS
Here's a few interesting facts about bamboos (Wikipedia): Bamboos are used as food, as ornamental plants, as tools,
for fighting soil erosion, to remove some toxins in the soil.
Bamboos fix 30 % more CO2 than trees and have a very small ecological imprint.
Out of bamboos can be made pulp, textile, furniture, floors, fishing rods,
music instruments... and so on.
At last, it is well known that bamboos bend but don't break off.
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Trays
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TRAYS
My large trays have a simple shape, usually square, sometimes round or polygonal.
So, from trays, they become paintings! |