Korea Craft Week 2021 Highlights

This is a work by Lee Hunchung, who captures the unique naturalness and humor of Korea through his skillful use of ceramics and concrete. This ceramic tiger is very attractive with its thick legs and tail, stout body, and the corners of the mouth that put on a playful smile.

This is a work by Park Sungwook, who works on buncheong ceramics. Pieces of ceramics the size of a child’s little finger are vertically attached tightly next to each other on the canvas to create unique shapes resembling mountains, the sea, or moon jar.

The work by Lee Taeksu, who works on ceramics and textiles. After dyeing textiles in various colors, he places them together as if they comprise a forest and hangs them side by side on the wall to create an appearance which displays rows of paper columns.

This is a work by Lee Geumyoung, who mainly deals with buncheong ceramics. Lee painted flowers, trees, and a house on a ceramic board and applied attractive colors. If you place it on your desk or hang it on the wall, it looks like an object or a painting.

These are works by Oh Soo, who creates a new aesthetic sense by attaching fake moss to natural stones or ceramics. She continues to produce not only small objects such as coasters but also large installations completed by knitting. 

This is a work by Shin Yichul. He transformed the main products of Royal & Company, pottery products and faucets, into artworks by coating them with gorgeous colors and wrapping them with paper tape.

Rhee Insook, who usually engages in works based on plaster casting, toiled with a view to creating the use of the objects. The key was to transform a toilet bowl and a washbasin produced by Royal & Company into a pot and a table decorated with all kinds of animals and plants.

Lee Jaejun embarked on a project to highlight the manufacturing process and characteristics of Royal & Company. Inspired by various pottery products, faucets, and brass pipes produced by the company, Lee used the materials themselves as the main components of art.