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<Collection of Short Comments on the Exhibition>

calligraphy, engraving and painting. ‘From a 45. Jung Yang-hwa agony) and divides the air like thunder.
Chaos to another Chaos’, such an endless work It is not the time that changes a person but a It is the level of CheonYu (天遊, free as natural as
of Professor Gosan for circulation of calligraphic person (Gosan) who changes the time! it is) with SimYu (心遊, mindful free).
art and such a regulated work for such endless Breaking the frame long time ago, he sang the 'Chaos that becomes chaos itself again'! Is it
work (復其見天地之心), and realization work song for MuHaYu (無何有, the utopia that is just YangSeoEumChim (陽舒陰慘, Yang is up while
of Professor Gosan for Lao-tzu’s and Zhuāng-zǐ’s natural as nature is)! Yin down)? It is already autumn while feeling like
aesthetic view of the world, I truly celebrate all I am confined in and satisfied with the present it is still spring.
such work of his. position myself. On the other hand, however, I Gosan’s mind having 'a great shaman' is traveling
- Lee Pil-sook, Doctor of Philosophy can’t help being curious about the boundary of all around the universe to become a friend of the
another calligraphy over the sea of chaos, the Creator of the Universe.
42. Jang Ji-hoon corner to enter into MuHaYu. Creation of 'WonSiBanBon (原始返本, principle
Doctor Choi Eun-cheol has sublimated East Asian I may be too far even from Jeong (情, such of a Korean religion meaning that everything
traditional Taoist thoughts up to a modern art emotion as love, affection attachment and etc.)! eventually returns back to their roots)' into art
convergent of calligraphy, painting and inscribing. I wish I could get even a little bit drunk under pieces would show the looks like those of these
His deep learning, talent and intention are all alive a lilac tree (a tree imagined to be on Huì-zi’s pieces.
on every touch of every piece. ground, which is explained about in the chapter of The words from East Asian classics stuffed in
- Jang Ji-hoon, Professor, Kyonggi University Xiāoyáo-yóu, Zhuāng-zǐ)! museums are recreated as art pieces, which are
- A thought from a thothee (二杆子, èrgǎn‧zi fully dressed up bragging up their brilliant looks.
43. Jung, Gwang-joo meaning a fool in Chinese; a dialect of eolganyi What a 'masterpiece (逸格)' every piece is!
Having seen the pieces Gosan Choi Eun-cheol has meaning a fool in Korean) -
recently created, *What if the title is not chaos but MuHaYu? 48. Cho In-sook
He looks like flying That is also Thothee’s thought of mine! “Ah, it’s really good!... Cool! This is the standard
High up toward the procedure of calligraphy art”, I am so happy
Highest level of art world from 46. Jung Hwa-soon that I am speaking to myself. ‘I am coming back
His own art world like a Such an affectionate artist Choi Eun-cheol who singing from the stream GiSu (沂水) after taking
Beautiful butterfly out of the makes everyone around him smile with full of bath and from the ritual site for rain MuWu (舞
Frame of calligraphy humor and wit 雩) after enjoying the cool air’, simultaneously, I
Now Such an excellent artist Choi Eun-cheol who am getting reminded of a phrase of the Analects
He is presents everyone around him fresh happiness of Confucius because the moods of being fresh,
Making a new road with brilliant pieces warm and natural come to me just as they are.
Spreading out a new world I feel affluent thanks to you Choi Eun-cheol
I can’t help applauding 49. Ji Seong-ryong
Such an agony and braveness of his 47. Cho Min-hwan The legend of creation starting with the chaos
I have only one wish "If you say Tao, it is not Tao at all [道可道,非常 of darkness shows God’s work of convergence
I wish 道]". painted on a simple blank of the universe. The
Every pieces he has created would What you have written is not what you have masterpieces of Gosan must have been created ‘by
Become new classics with values that written. What you have painted is not what you putting on his head the charcoal fire’ of the instinct
Never fade out have painted. What you have carved is not what art spirit baked of rising sun and sunset light
I, Geumcho Jung Gwang-joo, put my hand you have carved. The brush works with the - Goeun Ji Seong-ryong, Calligrapher(Writer of
together for him from a place in a southern mood of CheonChui (天趣, a part of heaven) and BiCheopGeumNang(碑帖錦囊))
province. ShinMun (神韻, amazing and graceful mood) are
dancing like an absolute mad festival. 50. Jin Young-geun
44. Jung Bok-dong The black having the mood of East Asian essential Your nickname Gosan means high mountain
Gosan is the artist and the philosopher making his five colors discloses its true color. Your name means silver wisdom
truthful effort at every moment for new creation. The sword of mind becomes the HyeGeom (慧劍, You, the artist, have been expanding your land of
- Jung Bok-dong, Doctor of Philosophy sword-like wisdom that cuts off the restriction of art

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