Goheung Buncheong Culture Museum Hosts Exhibition of Donated Works by Resident Buncheong Pottery Artists

Exhibition of Over 20 Buncheong Ceramics Reinterpreted by Contemporary Ceramic Artists

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] The Buncheong Culture Museum in Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Song Gwi-geun) announced on the 11th that it has been exhibiting about 20 donated works in the lobby on the 2nd floor of the museum since the 8th as part of the Buncheong Ware Artist-in-Residence program.

Goheung-gun has been operating the Buncheong Ware Artist-in-Residence program since 2019 to preserve and inherit the Buncheong Ware culture of Undaeri, Historic Site No. 519.

The "Buncheong Ware Artist-in-Residence Project" is a program that supports ceramic artists to reside for a certain period and engage in creative activities.

The resident artists showcase their works through a performance planning exhibition and donate a certain number of works to the Buncheong Culture Museum as part of the system.

This donation exhibition is the result achieved by resident artists from 2019 to 2020: ▲ Kim Seol-hwa (2019?2021) ▲ Heo Seong-bo (2019) ▲ Oh Hyang-jong (2020). The Buncheong Culture Museum has received 14 works so far.

Artist Kim Seol-hwa has donated 7 works to date and conveyed that she used Goheung Buncheong Ware to capture the "grain of nature" through the gaps created by humans, embedding the flow of time and emotions felt from within the artist into the works.

Artist Heo Seong-bo donated 3 works and focused on the sensations expressed by media with plasticity and liquid properties. The donated works clearly reveal the artist’s spontaneous serendipity through the cuer technique.

Artist Oh Hyang-jong donated 4 works, applying various colors to Buncheong Ware in an improvisational and free form using Buncheong Ware colored slip. The works embody the nature, weather, and sounds of Undaeri.

Additionally, this exhibition includes participation from this year’s resident artists who presented their work plans. Artists Yoon Jun-ho and Choi Han-ttut incorporated Undaeri Buncheong Ware into their unique artistic worlds, greatly raising expectations for the cultural assets to be donated to the Buncheong Culture Museum in the future.

The exhibition is scheduled to run until November, and a county official stated, “We will continue to promote the Buncheong Ware Artist-in-Residence Project to contribute to the inheritance and development of traditional culture and do our best to popularize, modernize, and globalize Buncheong Ware.”