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it started from the new viewpoint towards media that and glued beads on it so as to have it twinkle as the light
delivers human feelings brought by life. <Hopeful Song> changes. In this exhibition as well, she expressed the
also used sound as a medium. But it laid deeper focus on detailed movements of muscles that appear in dancers
the formative aspect rather than delivering a message with different colored beads. Moving forward, she
as done in previous works. Instruments are just tools. applied impressionism, neo-impressionism, and cubism
The ultimate goal is to let the beautiful harmony heard that represent modern art history into the dancer. As
through subtle comparison between two forms that have impressionists drew as they saw under the sun, she
similarities to nature. It steadily goes up, singing for hopes expressed the movements the dancer makes according
as seeking out for interrelation between empty space and to the sound as she felt. With neo-impressionism being
cubic form and straight & curved line. the next step of impressionism as it interpreted the light
<Yul> presented sound in a different way. The artist scientifically, she tried pointillism as neo-impressionists
demonstrated the rhythm of sound through repetitive did, and she added beads by interpreting each movement
lines placed at the center. Lines softly hugging the into each side as cubists did.
cylindrical stereobate are as flowing as melody in
music. Sound spreads out to the space via a horn that’s In traditional art, bead work is considered to be crafts. But
connected to a sound box of resonant sound as if going up the artist had the sculpture as a base and completed the
on the stave. We get to listen to the instrument’s melody work with beads as if she embroiders one stitch by one
and tone through our eyes instead of our ears. Urethane’s stitch. As a result, the <L’Almée> series reaches beyond
coloring applied to bronze’s cold metallicity leaves a heavy the boundaries between drawing and sculpting, and
impression like the low-tone sound of a sousaphone. As a between crafts and sculpture. As Sculptor Jong-Young
person would become broad-minded and composed to be Kim said, “The beauty of sculpture is that the result comes
able to look at the world calmly after undergoing woe and from hard labor,” while breaking down the traditional
tumult of the world, the artwork seems to have become barriers between genres, she felt her fingerprints would
rather softer and milder compared to previous ones. disappear because putting beads was so hard. However,
she only focused on her work with commitment. It is
Sculptures are about showing an object in a motionless simply the result of hard labor. She confessed that
state. Therefore a sculptor has to present it with one working on the stone sculpture that required the pecking
motion of one moment. Following 990’s, along with the of the stone using a chisel was tough for her as she grew
emergence of postmodernism, installation art and new old, so she decided to put beads onto the form made out of
media such as video caught on, changing the common stone, completing it with her own hands until the end.
idea of considering sculptures as motionless art. But the You can feel the strength in her artwork as you would
same as expressing shapeless sound into shapes, Jin- feel in a male sculptor’s artwork. That comes from the
Ja Lee tried different things to give motion to sculptures dancers’ movements. The vertical posture of holding both
whose traditional concept required it to be motionless. arms up in the air brings out such an energy. In order to
Even though the woman’s body doesn’t move in <Korean recreate the dancers’ powerful dancing steps through
Dancer>, it expresses movement through the patterns movements, she designed five dancers to rotate 360
in the base part and the crease at the end of the skirt. It degrees. On account of this, you will see in the exhibition
is to present the pure beauty of sculpture with simplified hall the dancers moving constantly while radiating
& volumed form and by adding decorations on the various colors under the light. But she’s also worried that
exaggeratedly curved surface. the splendor of beads might be just seen as decorative.

The artwork exhibited with the highest expectation by the To realize light and sound that are hard to express into
artist is <L’Almée> series. In the case of <Shouting of sculptures, Jin-Ja Lee did many different experiments in
Light> which was shown to the public this past spring, it this exhibition. It is hard to predict how the visitors would
depicted a robust, 180cm tall man to recreate Apollo, the react to this <Hymn of Light and Sound>. But it is without
Greek God of the Sun. As the artist explained, “Sound is a doubt that this will be what expands the artwork’s
a medium that allows humans to be able to see the light spectrum of Jin-Ja Lee who is continuously seeking out
which was given by Apollo, and that is what the shouting for new changes as a second generation female sculptor.
of light is about”, she divided sides by the muscle’s flow

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