Page 141 - Korean Buncheong Ceramics, Samsung Museum Collection (great book)

left: Catalogue 71 Yoon Kwang-cho (Korean, b. 1946).
Moon and Pond, 1978. Stoneware with white slip and
incised design, H. 12 5 ⁄8 in. (32 cm), Diam. 9 ⁄8 in. (25 cm).
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Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
below: Figure 3.15 Yoon Kwang-cho (Korean, b. 1946).
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Work, 1999. Stoneware with white slip, H. 33 ⁄2 in.
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(54.5 cm), L. 14 ⁄8 in. (36 cm). Leeum, Samsung
Museum of Art, Seoul

Gyeongju (called by Yoon “Windy Valley”), where the artist has lived and worked since the mid-1990s.
Also in this period, Yoon abandoned the potter’s wheel in favor of hand-shaped slabs; his works
became more sculptural, with vessels taking on rectangular shapes with unfinished-looking, rather
than smooth, edges. More recently, he has experimented more boldly with sculptural and rectan-
gular forms, sometimes pushing the limits of balanced proportions and exploring grander scales,
though he limits a piece’s size and weight to what he can carry on his own, as he works without
assistants. In addition, he has focused more on the poetic possibilities of the white slip itself,
applying it in different ways to create ferociously tactile and sumptuously visual surfaces, such
as on the piece entitled Work (fig. 3.15).

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