윤광조-도예화사에 바치는 청개구리 조어 Dedication toward Freewheeling Ceramic Artist

[미관彌款]

I chose one work out of four. After fixing the form, carving begins. If I carve wrong, all fails. Before carving, the form should be dried at a completely wind-free space for a couple of months. Then, white clay is applied at a line space, and carved on the half-dried surface.

비디오 제작 때 눈에 밟히던 윤광조 도예화사陶藝畵師를 십 년은 훌쩍 지난 후에 만나면서 언제 또 기회가 있으랴 했다. 다시 이십년이 지나 인터넷으로 맘 맛에 맞는 작품을 검색하여 사회연동망SNS을 통해 인사를 드린다. 시대가 시대인 만큼 이게 다시 뵙는 게 되었다.

선생에게 도예는 생활 속의 예술이면서 예술 속의 생활이다. 세속을 피해 숨어든 우거寓居에서 세상을 향한 숨죽인 사자후獅子吼를 토해낸다. 물에 비친 달을 길어내듯 생활 속에서 삶을 길어내고 삶 속에서 예술을 그리고 다시 분청에서 삶과 예술을 길어낸다.

정관靜觀의 도예라 했다. 정靜과 관觀의 화수분에서 약동하는 삶의 예도를 구현한다. 격렬한 몸짓의 휘젓기는 유약釉藥이 가라앉아 앙금이 되고서도 한참을 기다려서 마음속의 앙금이 가라앉을 때쯤 폭발적으로 그러나 숨죽인 분출의 예도藝陶로 자리하는 것이 선생의 도예화이다.

Ceramic with Golden Mean and Contemplation

Legend: "=" Yoon Kwang-jo(artist)

          "-"  Kim Young-jai (art critic)

      "..."

          "( )" Explanation of the situation

Bold: narration

Yoon Kwang-jo's exhibition of “Fragrance with golden mean and contemplation “was shown at the Sun Gallery in Seoul, Korea.

=Mr. Chairman, did you see what I did? I made a clay circle signifying the Sun Gallery. I paid full attention. Let me give you the Sun sign.

=I chose one work out of four. After fixing the form, carving begins. If I carve wrong, all fails. Before carving, the form should be dried at a completely wind-free space for a couple of months. Then, white clay is applied at a line space, and carved on the half-dried surface.

=This is 2008 style. After big exhibitions at Seattle and Philadelphia, I thought almost nothing could be unbroken, perhaps because I was arrogant and boasting.

=I make 40 pieces in a year and selected 10 pieces. 360 devided into 40 makes 9, that is, I have to make a piece in 9 days. If I neglect, making 10 pieces in a year is impossible.

... You have a large kiln, don't you?

=Not large. If it were large, I might fire twice in my life.

... Why do you make triangular pillars?

=Ceramic works basically have circular form consistency. However, triangular forms have a thousand faces. My triangular forms have variable thickness and elegant mutation. Isn't modern art destined to destroy routine styles?

=When I was a young boy, adults called me 'green frog,' that is, I never follow their orders and I went my way. I chose a potter job by chance; however, it fits my temper. If I were a public servant, how could I manage?

(Greeting of the artist at the exhibition ceremony)

=I’ll keep your kindness in mind and find my way as usual.”

(Interview with a sponsor)

...The Academy chose him for his magnificent skills in ceramic art.

-What do you think of spirit in art?

=Magnificent, I think.

(Address for a salute)

...When he was young, Yoon's art was smooth and pretty, nowadays, they allow for a variety of tastes.  Cheers.

(Friend 1)

.. Good, it is neither crowded nor vacant.

(To Friends)

=Drinking killed me several times, so, you see a new born man here.

=Age forced me to idle away, sometimes I was odious about my work.

(Friend 2)

...No way to hide your work in 'there'.

Ceramic works of Yoon Kwang-jo jumps over those with artificial craftsmanship and span across time. His dexterity in taming clay follows the inner rhythm of nature. Even the fresh grayish-blue powdered celadon looks like a thousand aged artifacts.

‘There’

Really it was a rare visit. Almost a half day's worth of driving is needed to get there. In 'there,' where no exit except working, I wondered if catching the essence of Yoon's work would be possible?

Legendary episodes follow him. Some twenty years ago, Yoon was allowed to pass by a check-up cop who had mistaken him as a granny driving a jeep, and an old man lured him in to take a cup of coffee with him.

-You said you forgot the gender, and you tried to forget the ego consciousness. What was the result?

=I realized that the greatest job is doing nothing. That's what my job is. The jobs can be done only by me.

"Sit in the room, but see through the universe, "Lao-zu said. In the howling of the valley wind, in a small yellow soiled room named 'Chi-il-am the reaching to the oneness hermit cell,' Yoon made a frank confession of the naked truth of his creations and of the solitary nature of art.

=I have to make four-fold works, that is, forty pieces in a year, because some get ruined in the process and produce unsatisfactory results. 

-I am not sure whether the spontaneous process is good, or the straight-jacket output is good.

=Spontaneous fluency comes from agony, not from idling away. Buddha said, "There is no Nirvana-attaining Buddhahood with any agony" In other words, this corrupted world is Elysium-supreme paradise. That is, nothing comes  without agony.

=We are not attaining the Elysium throwing up this world. Living in the Elysium, why do you feel like you are trapped in agony. That is not a problem of this world and/or the works but mine. To attain enlightenment, preliminary discipline is needed.

Aesthetics of Verisimilitude

Thereafter, Bunchung-the grayish-blue powdered celadon takes after Yoon Kwang-jo; like-wise, Yoon takes after the Bunchung celadon.

=Bunchung is an abbreviated word for the grayish-blue powdered celadon; however, the distribution is not confined to our country, but the world.

-Your works are nonetheless similar to the ordinary Bunchung celadon.

=Sure they are. Another concept is created. Tradition is not following the past steps but creating new ones. How can it be alike, since the world is changing?

-In the 1990s, you told me about a Japanese ceramic artist. He begged you to teach him, however, after several years of the mechanical Japanese approach, he kill himself in total despair.  

=Japanese artists admire our liberal finishing in art. The artist Hondo Yudaka admitted my stop sign, but retouched it as soon as I turned around. I got crazy.

=Culture is an offspring of father time and mother soil. Time changes, so culture should be changed. Culture changes as the soil changes. 

Yoon Kwang-jo understands and maintains self-restraint and golden medium in his artwork; he enjoys physiological changes brought about in later years by age and aesthetics. What is more, he knows how to transfer the reasonableness of nature to his work.  

=I negotiate with myself saying “Hey, Kwang-jo, follow your physical condition; never go beyond your power" So, negotiation is made to work within my power. Isn't that as natural as nature?  

-Quite natural as a stream of a river.

Great Negotiation

Capricious and non-negotiable clay plates gave ways to Yoon for cutting, pasting and planting spirit in the clay. Thus, confliction and negotiation sublimate in Yoon's art. 

Hand-stained work becomes men's art; however, nature and the heavens make up for perfection.

Cutting

=A ruler enables someone to draw accurate lines; however, a visual margin is created as a bi-product of the accuracy and inaccuracy. The margin dominates the spontaneity of the works, thus delivering freedom to the spectators.

=When wet, it will be torn apart. When dry, it cannot be pasted. Although pasted, it will be detached. So, a half wet and half dry condition is the best with which to paste.

=So, a phone is not available in my studio. For punctuality, I am living in the mountain without social meetings. 

-What about moistening the clay with vinyl covering?.

=It will last at most a day. Clay is alive. I have to follow the hardness to do my job.

Pasting

With correct understanding and articulate methodology, clumsy craftsmanship  can be penetrated into the artwork. Curved lines are made of abundant straight lines; hand drawn lines create spontaneity and deliver naturalness.

Non-intentional Intention

In the darkening studio, Yoon seems to pour his completed art work fluently from his brain. So I asked 

-You don't pay much attention to sketch when you work, do you?

=Absolutely not. Agony helps smooth progress. Agony is sketching. Of course, I do sketch, but I accept impromptu on the spot. 

=All of the triangular pillars differ in length, thickness and expression‎. Following sketch, you would draw an outline, cut, and paste. After rough pasting, I wrap vinyl for a couple of days until it is time for finishing. 

Man and mountain, mountain and man

-Surrounding mountains are positioned as the configuration of the recommended ground theory. What is the name of those mountains?

=The higher mountain is Dodeoksan Mountain, and the next one is Jaoksan Mountain. On the left of Jaoksan Mountain, the residence of Joseon scholar Hoeje Lee Un-jok can be seen. A number of Jaoksan mountain poems appear in Hoeje's literary anthology.

-No wonder scholar Lee settled down here after examining the configuration of the ground theory.

=No wonder, it proves to be an ideal place.

A dream in a dream

-So you wrote 'A dream in the dream.'

=Mr. Susumu wrote, ' That's a real world.'

-He surely is getting on well with you.

=He was really a good friend.

=Help yourself. Sushi tastes magnificent.

A straw-thatched hut

-You moved almost four hundred kilometers away from your former dwelling. Is it your birth place?

=I settled here after wandering around all regions of Korea. It was a persimmon orchard, so I lived a year in a trailer until I received permission to build this house.

-You live in a wide open field.

=Without a fence. Let me introduce a poem.

“A straw-thatched hut is built after a lifelong desire

A room is for a bright moon, the other is for a fresh wind

Surround the mountains and streams, since no rooms are left.”

- Fantastic!

=My house has two rooms, as the poem says.

Bestow a Life to Clay

Glazing is an activity of bestowing life to the clay after the artists has mixed according to his taste, and has performed forming and drying.

Swiftly but loosely, spontaneously but strictly, his touching impression settles up on a clay plate. Like a Shun (Zen in Korean) painting or a stroke of literary painting, condensed time and space are carved in the name of life and art.

Behaviors and the traces of activity will be shown as Yoon’s art after the clay is tempered by fire in a kiln, Yoon's bright smile of rapture from is a result of his fruitful creation.

=I am trying to maximize the materialistic quality of the clay.

-Your temperament might look like performance art, against your intention. 

=Exactly right.

Dripping in glaze is quite a static job. The glaze is lazily flowing fluid, and fast, and swift brush strokes are combined to give a sense of mighty speed, On the glazed plate, I add a touch to suggest the moon’s reflection on the pond

=I tried to imprint my impression from the moon reflected on the pond.

=The moon is configured as the truth in Buddhist teaching, this looks like flickering and scattering moonlight being reflected on the pond.

-The aesthetic of your work can be defined as the harmony of two contradictory factors, contemplation and sudden enlightenment.

=Such contrast and harmony, collision and compromise make artwork. Let me see. This job is far more excellent. 

Preliminary Power for the Art

-You live and travel where the air is fresh.

=The sea smells like sea flavor, and the mountain smells like wet clay and trees.

=I release fish after feeling the vitality of fishing.

-Like a Taoist hermit, you enjoy fishing while drinking.

=I do not drink much these days, I am lazy.

-Difficult to raise the cup, huh?

=I used to be a heavy drinker when I was young. But then I was shocked by a comment from a Buddhist monk named Hwal-sung not to hide behind liquor, so I began three thousand bows a day for ten days following his instruction. On the seventh day, I found a bruise spread from toes to my thigh, however, the bruise turn into an ivory color from eighth day.

When I said I made it, the monk said, “How about adding ten thousand bows in the next two days to make forty thousand bows, as a 'rinsing of the mouth’?”

=Around that time, I began clay plate work, instead of a spinning wheel job.

-We should let all of the artists do fifty thousand bows.

=Ten thousand more bows than I did?

Satisfy Your Present

=Quoted from Taotechig by Lao-zu, “A greedy mind prevents you from conceiving true nature"

-What marvelous bamboo trees.

=I bought this land admiring this bamboo forest, isn’t this rock magnificent too?

-It sure is.

=Look, there are mountain cherry blossoms over there.

Yoon Kwang-jo enjoys his life in 'there', with romantic plum blossom dripped liquor, exquisite wine and fabulous coffee. He embraces the moon, admiring romance and mundane life together.

(A poem by Jeongkwang a hermit in the 18th Joseon period)

“Without existence and nonexistence, what is the use of language and character?

Breeze sleeps at the end of a faraway place

A boat sails where autumn sea waves stop to splash”

*도예화사-도예와 그림이 하나의 경지를 이루는 작가라는 뜻의 조어造語임

*맘 맛-‘마음에 드는’이라는 의미를 담은 조어造語임

-청개구리 윤선생에게 뭐 청개구리 조어 쯤 어떠랴...하는 심사가 있다.

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