Yoon Kwang-cho
(Korea 1946– )
- Title
- Punch'ông ware jar
- Other titles:
- Punch'ong ware jar
- Alternative title:
- Powder green ware jar
- Place of origin
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Korea
- Year
- circa 1990
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with slip decoration
- Dimensions
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39.0 x 31.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from an anonymous donor 1992
- Accession number
- 198.1992
- Copyright
- © Yoon Kwang-cho
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In a seeming contradiction of its substance as an object, this unusual jar carries inscriptions from a Buddhist text on nothingness. The potter, a Buddhist who lives in the mountains of Kwangju, believes that dedication and painstaking effort are an essential part of the creative process. His work is praised for its individuality and for its imaginative embrace of antiquity, particularly the austere but beautiful aesthetic of the uniquely Korean 'punch'ong' (literally 'powder green') ceramics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In this engaging object the artist has employed the 'sgraffito' technique in which the vessel, made in this case by the coiling method, is then beaten and its surface scoured in an instant 'maturing' process before being covered with a white slip. The characters have then been scratched through the thin slip. This rich combination of contemporary individuality with a spirit of antiquity expresses the ideals of purity, honesty and humble sparseness so admired by the connoisseurs and tea masters of modern Japan.
Art Gallery Handbook, 1999. pg. 267.
- Bibliography (4)
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Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 211 (colour illus.).
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 267 (colour illus.).
The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 187 (colour illus.).
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales: highlights from the collection, Sydney, 2008, 181 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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Kwang-Cho Yoon ceramic exhibition (1991), Sun Gallery and Sun Art Center, 1991–1991.
Yoon Kwang-cho ceramics (1991), Macquarie Galleries, 13 Aug 1991–07 Sep 1991.
Buddhist Art from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 May 1995–10 Sep 1995.
