Glass Sculpture, Chung Sukyung


Sukyung Chung, who studied design in Russia and pursued glass art at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the UK, creates abstract sculptures inspired by the geometric structures of architecture and the natural world.


Utilizing a casting technique, the artist fuses colored glass blocks through heat. These blocks, each of varying sizes, are meticulously arranged in a mold before being placed into a kiln. Within the uncontrolled environment of the kiln, a slow and organic thermal forming process transforms the angular glass blocks into a material state that straddles solid and liquid.


Chung's intention is to capture the characteristics of 'order and randomness' and 'form and formlessness' within the boundary-blurring arrangement of colors. This results in an acceptance of 'natural beauty' that mirrors fractals found in nature—complex structures that exhibit repetitive patterns.


Ultimately, the thickness and transparency of the glass, coupled with the refraction of light, evoke an experience akin to peering beneath the surface of water, expressed in a manner that can be both serene and dynamic.


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์ •์ˆ˜๊ฒฝ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ•™ํ•œ ํ›„ ์˜๊ตญ์™•๋ฆฝ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๋Œ€ํ•™(RCA)์—์„œ ์œ ๋ฆฌ ์กฐํ˜•์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ๊ธฐํ•˜ํ•™์  ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ์ž์—ฐ์—์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์–ด ์ถ”์ƒ ์กฐ๊ฐ์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์บ์ŠคํŒ… ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒ‰์œ ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ”๋ก์„ ์—ด๋กœ ๋ถ™์—ฌ์„œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ์˜ ๋ธ”๋ก์€ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋“œ์— ๋‚˜์—ด๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋งˆ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 


ํ†ต์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฟ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋งˆ ์†์—์„œ ๊ธธ๊ณ  ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์—ด์„ฑํ˜• ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ์ด ์ง„ ์œ ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ”๋ก๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ์ฒด์™€ ์•ก์ฒด์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์  ๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ฑ์„ ๋›ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์˜๋„๋Š” ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ์ƒ‰ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ๋ฐฐ์—ด ์†์—์„œ '๊ทœ์น™๊ณผ ์šฐ์—ฐ์„ฑ', '์ •ํ˜•๊ณผ ๋น„์ •ํ˜•'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋‹ด์•„๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ž์—ฐ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜๋Š” ํ”„๋ž™ํƒˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ผ์ •ํ•œ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” '์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€'์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  


๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ์œ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‘๊ป˜๊ฐ๊ณผ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์ด ์„ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋น›์˜ ๊ตด์ ˆ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์•„๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋•Œ๋ก  ์ •์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋•Œ๋ก  ์—ญ๋™์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.




EDUCATION

KyungHee University Graduate school, industrial Design, Doctor completion, 2015

Royal College of Art Ceramics and Glass, MA, 2012

University for the Creative Arts in Farnham Ceramics and Glass, MA, 2009

KyungHee University Art Fusion Design Graduate School Product Design, MA, 2005   

Moscow Industrial Design Art University Glass Design, BA, 2000



AWARDS

Finalistใ…ฃEmerge 2018 Bullseye glass, Portland USA 

Finalistใ…ฃEmerge 2012 Bullseye glass , Portland USA 

Finalistใ…ฃStanislav Libensky Award 2012, Prague CZECH 

Award of the president of Korean Fine Arts Associationใ…ฃ Section of Craft Art of the 24th Korea National Arts Exhibition 2005, S. Korea