Translated Vase no. 8

Artist: Yeesookyung, born 1963

Translated Vase number 8

Dimensions: 116 x 111 x 122 cm

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“Ceramic sculpture created from ceramic discarded by Park Young Sook, fused together with epoxy and 24 carat gold, 2012.

For her – ‘Translated Vase’ – sculptures Yee gathers discarded shards for master ceramics to create a new forms. The sculptures incorporate the traditionally-made highly-prized porcelain into awkward forms that seem strangely human fused together with precious gold leaf. The use of gold leaf is a pun on the Korean term geum meaning both gold and split. Yee’s constructions fuse centuries of Far Eastern ceramic tradition (and by implication, centuries of separation) with 20th-century European Modernism’s bricolage technique of assembling found materials.”

Location: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

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