JONGJIN PARK (SOUTH KOREAN 1982-)
ARTISTIC STRATUM W0105-2
signed (to base), tissue paper soaked in porcelain
17.5cm high, 21cm wide (6 7/8in high, 8 ¼in wide)
Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, March 2017, The Steve Allison Collection.
‘My practice explores the remarkable ability of ceramics to deceive the eye’. Jongjin Park in an interview with Ceramics Now, October 2020.Jongjin Park is one of the most exciting ceramicists currently working in South Korea. By employing tissue paper and clay slip as his tools, he creates works that appear at first glance to be paper, but which slowly reveal themselves as delicate and elegant ceramics. Park is interested in relational art and the idea that artistic practice is not an independent space but connected to the whole human experience, with the artist acting as a catalyst in artistic production rather than the figure at the centre of it. Park finds this relevant to him as a ceramicist who can understand his materials through their own manipulation to engage in a dialogue with his viewers to create his ceramics. His innovative technique finds its inspiration in the traditional craft of Moon jars, which evolved during the Imperial Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). Jongjin Park obtained his PhD in ceramics at Kookmin university in South Korea, where he currently lives and works.