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<Collection of Short Comments on the Exhibition>



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



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