Square Vase

Choi Sung-jae

born 1962

Square Vase, 2005

Where object was made: Korea

Material/technique: stoneware; slip; Puch'ong 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

Not on display

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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.