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Kang, Su-ji (Curator, Jeju Stone Park)

Obaekjanggun Gallery is concluding 2024 by presenting Jeju, the Works in the category of “fusion calligraphy” are produced in
Contemplative, an end-of-year exhibition by fusion calligraphy unconventional frames such as wide and horizontal rather than
artist Yang Sang-cheol. The exhibition will unfold his calligraphic long and vertical, and there are even works that are transfigured
fusion works, a collection of traditional calligraphy and works using or of great width. The work was done on a variety of foundations,
modern art production methods. such as cloth, canvas, wood board, and printmaking paper, in
addition to acrylic. In addition, works infused with various modern
The "Calligraphy Promotion Act" enacted in 2018 introduces methodologies of fine art such as daubing, scraping, rubbing, and
calligraphy as a character-based visual art that uses paper, tearing are introduced as “fusion calligraphy” by the artist.
brush, and ink to express aesthetic beauty. As the law stipulates,
calligraphy is supported at the national level and aims to promote Visitors will find it intriguing to discover how traditional art is
national culture, but calligraphy is not, in fact, a popular genre due transformed: They will naturally encounter great diversity, such as,
to the linguistic barriers of the Chinese text, the sense of distance or for instance, breaking away from forms or adopting contemporary
the inconvenience of traditional materials such as Chinese paper, themes like the COVID-19 pandemic. It is hoped that the exhibition
brush, and ink. Calligraphy, or seoye in Korean, is often used as a offers a moment to reflect on the act of “writing” while appreciating
completely different skill, as in beautiful handwriting in modern the work of an artist who has calmly and brutally examined the
society. Books on calligraphy sometimes reach the bestseller practice of paper writing to date, especially at a time when the
stand, but the content is mostly on the skills required to handle the use of writing tools has further decreased due to the spread of
instruments. smartphones.

At this point, Yang Sang-cheol stands out as an artist who has been
seeking in calligraphy contemporaneity, diversity, popularity, and
modernization. He learned calligraphy from Soam Hyun Jung-
hwa in middle school. Although he did not major in calligraphy
in college, he has honed his skills over the past twenty years or
so at home after work. As the title Jeju, the Contemplative Wind
suggests, this showcase is a platform to introduce produced works
of his that have been inspired by Jeju’s nature, particularly the wind.

Among the Chinese script styles, choseo (cursive style), which
encapsulates the artist’s originality, is often compared to the wind
in terms of the rhythmic movement of the style. It is hoped that
audiences can feel a sense of rhythm in the choseo style and the
artist’s uniqueness in traditional works of calligraphy that embody
epigraphs, and old rhymes.

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