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Retrospective of Korean Modern Embroidery Artist Park Eul Bok Exhibition
June 1, 2010 ~ July 2, 2010
Retrospective of Korean Modern Embroidery Artist Park Eul Bok Exhibition” at Park Eul Bok Embroidery Museum offers the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of work from the early works to the latest, provides a new perspective of her art world.
Born in Kyung-gi province, Korea in 1915, Park Eul Bok graduated from Ewha Womans University (Seoul), majored in Embroidery at Tokyo Women’s College of Fine Art. Through winning numerous national competitions and continuation of art career, she blends traditional and modern embroidery of Korea which led to a new form of art.
In this invitational exhibition, Park’s works are categorized by age: 1930’s work expressing beauty of traditional oriental embroidery which was close to our everyday-lives, 1960’s works expand the expression boundary of two dimensional and fine art approach, 1970-80s’ reflecting multi-cultural experience gained through traveling to numerous countries with nonrepresentational sensibility, 90’s modern abstract embroidery combining acrylic paint on canvas.
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Therefore, this exhibition is a great opportunity to have a bird-eye view on embroidery art in the context of both art history and cultural history at a glance through work of Park Eul Bok, a representing artist of Korean Embroidery Art.
After graduation of Tokyo Women’s College of Fine Art as a embroidery major, she continues her art career with a glamorously expressed work, ‘Chrysanthemum and mandarin Ducks’ utilizing traditional oriental embroidery’s composition and technique.
Her works in 1960s implemented into a new area. Away from realism expression of traditional oriental embroidery, re-interpretation of abstract representation shows new possibilities of modern embroidery. Park shows her unique character in ‘An Idea for a Poem’, a simple composition of two facing birds, utilizing jade which is an uncommon material in Embroidery which eventually lead to a form of an exotic composition.
Staying in Paris in the late 1970s, her work begins to reflect variety of experience gained during travel from place to place in Europe. Met in Paris, Art Deco (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France), Professor Dupeux invited to the home of huge collection of frog collectives which led to the inspiration of her work. Works in this period take a modern form combining Korean everyday-embroidery with European sensibilities, extending a boundary of embroidery art.
Since the late 1990s, Park continued experimental attempt to widen the area of embroidery art combining with fine art painting. Recent works introduce unique techniques and materials, such as embroidery on painted canvas background, or embroidery with hair instead of embroidery thread. Even in a selection of the theme, she chose interesting subjects in wide spectrum including, ‘Korean Playing Cards (Hwa two)’ representing the life of masses, and an autobiographical work depicting her own life.
Park devoted her life to establish a new meaning of embroidery which is not limited in the context of tradition, but widening the field of embroidery art as a genre of a fine art.
This exhibition consists of her works of seventy years- from Japanese Colonial Period to modern Korea- a nation of world’s 12th largest economy. These works expect to give viewers an experience of timeless empathy- to elders who are familiar with embroidery as an everyday essential, and even to younger generations who are unfamiliar with embroidery art. |
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