{"id":5527,"date":"2021-06-24T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&p=5527"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T06:27:04","slug":"contemporary-craft-furniture","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/5527","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Craft Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021. 6. 24 – 6. 27
\nKim Yoonkwan<\/p>\n

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Sabangtakja KYUNG, 2021, Ash thermowood, 330(W) \u00d7 320(D) \u00d7 2100(H)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2GIL29 GALLERY presents Kim Yoonkwan\u2019s (b.1971) \u201cContemporary Craft Furniture” exhibition from June 24th to 27th. His goal to contain necessary function and design in the contemporary era shows and complete the entire process meticulously at his fingertips without any unnecessary process is fully shown in this upcoming exhibition. The 5 kinds, 12 works that will be exhibited at 2GIL29 GALLERY are one of the \u2018Joseon Classic\u2019 series, which began in 2012 and has been continued for more than a decade. His works reflect his philosophy of his desire to create a piece that will remain \u2018classic\u2019 rather than \u2018traditional\u2019.<\/p>\n

His work, which has pursued contemporaneity based on aesthetics of pausing rooted from the \u2018Joseon aesthetic’, is often valued that it has \u201980 percent beauty. ‘ And it is impossible without extreme aesthetics and restriction, and training and the harmony and balance that are completed with restrained brevity is absolutely marvelous. Especially the \u2018three sides table,\u2019 which will be unveiled for the first time in this exhibition, is special in that it is a new version of the \u2018four sides table\u2019 of Joseon wooden furniture that he has long devised. Also, it\u2019s more valuable because it signals that his work, which has been thoroughly based on \u2018function,\u2019 has reached a big turning point. His value towards life has also changed significantly since his trip to a European monastery in 2017, and inspired during his trip, this wooden work was completed four years after he planned. He chose it as the most memorable, anticipated work ever.<\/p>\n

He said, “not technology, tools or wood. Time makes a good piece of wooden furniture. Time, waiting, and the mind that embraces and concedes the waiting make the furniture that will hold people’s sight and touch.\u201d The craftsman\u2019s skilled time and value in his completed pieces with \u2018proper pause\u2019 will be reflected in the exhibition at 2GIL29 GALLERY. It hopes that the exhibition with 2GIL29 GALLERY will be an opportunity for contemporary people, who are pressed for time, to appreciate the time to wait and slow down.<\/p>\n

Artist Introduction
\nKim YoonKwan
\nKim (b.1971) is an inborn craftsman who introduces himself as \u201ca carpenter who makes furniture.\u201d Or in more detail, he describes himself as \u201ca carpenter who makes contemporary design furniture through the method of weaving with wood as a material.\u201d He believes that the core of craft aesthetics is not to make \u2018new things\u2019 but to \u2018make them better,\u2019 and he thinks \u2018making them better\u2019 is also a way to implement \u2018newness.\u2019 He restrains excess in order to embody the original form of the object and seeks out the essence of the Korean aesthetic in wooden furniture of the Joseon Dynasty. He spends time cutting and trimming trees so that the depth and aesthetics of the wood\u2019s property of matter can be naturally expressed.<\/p>\n

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sabangtakja, 2021, Ash Thermowood, 330(W) \u00d7 330(D) \u00d7 2000(H)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2GIL29 GALLERY
\n2GIL29 Bldg. 35, Gangnam-daero 158-gil, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea
\n+82 2 6203 2015<\/p>\n

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