Square Vase

Choi Sung-jae, artist

born 1962

Square Vase, 2005

Portfolio/Series title: Meditation series

Where object was made: Korea

Material/technique: stoneware; slip; Buncheong ware

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 20 13/16 x 8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 52.8 x 22 x 22 cm
Weight (Weight): 22 lbs

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Fund

Accession number: 2008.0038

On display: Lee Study Center

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Form & Flux: Contemporary East Asian Ceramics and Surface Stories

In this work, Choi Sung-jae reinterprets classical Korean Buncheong ware, a 15th-century stoneware. After applying a white slip to the gray clay, Choi uses various tools, from reeds to fingers, to create dynamic imagery of reeds and ducks. This expressive brushwork and carving echo traditional calligraphy and ink painting, infusing Korean art with a modern sensibility. Choi's vessels, made using press-molds, reflect the spontaneity and simplicity of literati traditions in East Asia.

Exhibition Label:
“Textures of Interpretation: Meaning and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art," Jan-2010, Sooa Im
In this work, Choi Sung-jae reinterprets classical Korean Buncheong ware, a type of stoneware that was popular in 15th-century Korea. After covering the gray clay body with white slip, Choi used an assortment of instruments, from reeds to his fingers, to create powerful brushed imagery of reeds and ducks. Such an expressive rhythm of brushwork and carving technique echoes traditional calligraphy and ink painting, transposed in this work to the surface of a ceramic vessel.