Jeonnam Naju City Natural Dyeing Culture Foundation (Chairman Yoon Byung-tae) announced on the 17th that it will hold a special invitational exhibition at the Korea Natural Dyeing Museum until the 27th.
The invited artist is Professor Emeritus No Eun-hee from the College of Fine Arts at Chosun University, who will showcase about 90 works under the theme "Becoming a Tree."
Artist No Eun-hee expresses trees using coffee filters and knitting. [Photo by Naju City Natural Dyeing Cultural Foundation]
The works vividly express trees using materials such as hanji (traditional Korean paper), bamboo, cedar, discarded fibers, thread, and coffee filters.
Artist No breathes artistic life not only into natural materials like tree branches and hanji, which absorb water and carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis, but also into discarded fibers.
Various techniques and colors harmonize in the works, including sewing, knitting, pasting, layering, zooming, pleating, and stitching, sometimes contrasting to evoke a range of emotions such as comfort, tension, vitality, and artistic ecstasy.
No explained the meaning behind the works, saying, "Trees symbolize nature and life as they absorb water from the ground and carbon dioxide from the air to produce energy, sustain life, release oxygen, and grow."
Im Kyung-ryeol, director of the Korea Natural Dyeing Museum, said, "This exhibition by artist No will be an opportunity to feel the vibrant energy of spring through art," adding, "We will continue to expand cultural enjoyment for citizens and tourists through various invitational exhibitions."
Meanwhile, artist No Eun-hee earned a Ph.D. in Art Criticism from Hongik University and served as a professor in the Department of Design at the College of Fine Arts, Chosun University.
She is currently active as an invited designer for the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition, and as an invited artist for the Korea Fine Arts Exhibition and the Gwangju Fine Arts Exhibition.
Naju = Lee Han-hyuk, Honam Reporting Headquarters, Asia Economy baekok@asiae.co.kr
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