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<Collection of Short Comments on the Exhibition>

In the world of chaos that even light can’t enter but on slate with various colors laid on layer by Having seen the pieces Gosan Choi Eun-cheol has
into layer? recently created,
A knife is playing like a brush and Who could even think about just seeing such He looks like flying
Coming out to the world pieces without expression of exclamation? High up toward the
I appreciate you giving me a chance of enjoying I am giving a very big hand to Gosan, who Highest level of art world from
vividly such an everlasting ecstasy, and I wish has created such an ingenious idea with a new His own art world like a
your passion and effort would become the challenge. Beautiful butterfly out of the
brightest star in the future with my hands put What an amazing work! Frame of calligraphy
together. What a fantastic exhibition! Now
With Respect I wish everything will go well around this event. He is
- Mockrim Lee Doo-sun(Western Style Painter) - Making a new road
41. Lee Jeong-sook Spreading out a new world
37. Lee Bong-seok As if today comes from yesterday and goes to I can’t help applauding
Picasso-like Calligraphy, Calligraphy-like Picasso tomorrow Such an agony and braveness of his
Such an excellent art world of yours moving all Here, yesterday meets today I have only one wish
around world and time will greatly impress all the Here, a chaos meets another chaos I wish
spectators enhancing their contemporary sense Here, a twister black-hole makes a new road Every pieces he has created would
and joyful mood all. Congratulation for such a new road to get opened Become new classics with values that
- Youngwoon Lee Bong-seok, Honorary here! Never fade out
Chairman, Korean Doctors’ Calligraphy Society - Ga-cheong Lee Jeong-sook Adjunct Instructor I, Geumcho Jung Gwang-joo, put my hand
of Calligraphy Buddhist Monk College, together for him from a place in a southern
38. Lee Yong-jin Songgwangsa Temple, Suncheon, Korea province.
It is the art world of Doctor Gosan that hugs every
existence as they are and shows great capability 42. Lee Pil-sook 45. Jung Bok-dong
freely swinging without any barrier. Absolute remarkable is the fresh and profound Gosan is the artist and the philosopher making his
- Lee Yong-jin(Executive Director, Monthly aesthetic edge that Professor Gosan has created for truthful effort at every moment for new creation.
Calligraphy and Literary Man Painting) ‘Exhibition of YungHwa Painting’ that harmonizes - Jung Bok-dong, Doctor of Philosophy
calligraphy, engraving and painting. ‘From a
39. Lee Eun-ho Chaos to another Chaos’, such an endless work 46. Jung Yang-hwa
Gosan’s pieces have realized the aesthetics of of Professor Gosan for circulation of calligraphic It is not the time that changes a person but a
Chi and its Vitality (cheerfulness and vividness) art and such a regulated work for such endless person (Gosan) who changes the time!
in modern ways: being convergent of calligraphy work (復其見天地之心), and realization work Breaking the frame long time ago, he sang the
and painting. of Professor Gosan for Lao-tzu’s and Zhuāng-zǐ’s song for MuHaYu (無何有, the utopia that is just
Gosan’s firm will and power shown on every edge aesthetic view of the world, I truly celebrate all natural as nature is)!
of his pieces having powerful calligraphic style such work of his. I am confined in and satisfied with the present
and sword-like resolution will become a good - Lee Pil-sook, Doctor of Philosophy position myself. On the other hand, however, I
model for his followers in Korean calligraphy can’t help being curious about the boundary of
field. 43. Jang Ji-hoon another calligraphy over the sea of chaos, the
- Professor Lee Eun-ho, Hongik University Doctor Choi Eun-cheol has sublimated East Asian corner to enter into MuHaYu.
traditional Taoist thoughts up to a modern art I may be too far even from Jeong (情, such
40. Lee Eui-young convergent of calligraphy, painting and inscribing. emotion as love, affection attachment and etc.)!
Right at the moment I saw Gosan’s work, “Ah!”, His deep learning, talent and intention are all alive I wish I could get even a little bit drunk under
I could not help just expressing an exclamation on every touch of every piece. a lilac tree (a tree imagined to be on Huì-zi’s
sound. - Jang Ji-hoon, Professor, Kyonggi University ground, which is explained about in the chapter of
Who could even think about working on such Xiāoyáo-yóu, Zhuāng-zǐ)!
pieces, which were made not on calligraphy paper 44. Jung, Gwang-joo - A thought from a thothee (二杆子, èrgǎn‧zi

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