<๋, ์, ๋ ๋ค - Fly, Bird, Fly>
2025.10.16 ~ 2025.11.08
์ค์ฑํ ๊ฐ์ธ์
๋๊ณผ ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์์ ํฅํ ์กฐํ์ธ์ด
์ด๋ฒ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ์์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ผ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ์ ์๋ก ๋ ์กฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด์ด์จ ์ค์ฑํ ์๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ช
ํ๋ค. ์๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ฐ์์ผ๋ก ํธ๋์ด, ์ฐ๊ฝ, ๋ถ์ฒ, ์ธ๋ฌผ ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ์ฃผ์ ์ ์์
์ ์งํํด์๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์์๋ '์(Bird)'์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํด ์ด์์ ํฅํด '๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ์' ์ฐ์์ ์ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ์๊ฐ๋ ์ ํ์์ ์ฌํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์ด ์๋กญ๊ฒ ํด์๋๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ํ๊ตฌํ๋ค.
์๊ฐ๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ ๋
์๋ฅผ ์ข์ํด ํ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋คํ์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ค๋๋ฉฐ ์๋ฅผ ์ซ๋ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ง์ ์์๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ฉด ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ฒ๋ ค ์ค์ ๋ก ์๋ฅผ ์ก์ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ด ์ ๋
์์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์๊ฐ์๊ฒ ์์๋ถ์ฒ๋ผ ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๊ฐ๋ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ด ๋ง์ ์๋ง ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์์ ์ต์ฑ์์ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค. ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ด์์ด์ ๋ก๋ง์ ๋ด์ ์์ง์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์๋ค.
์๋ก๋ถํฐ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ผ์์ ์ ์๊ฒ, ์ ์ ์์ฑ์ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฌํด ์ฃผ๋ ๋งค๊ฐ์ฒด๋ก ์ฌ๊ฒจ์ก๋ค. ๋ง์ ์
๊ตฌ์ ์๋๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ํต์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋ด๊ธด ์๋ฅผ ์์งํ๋ค. ํํธ ์๊ฐ ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ํ์๋ ์ข
๊ต์ ๋ช
์์ด์ ๋ถ๊ต์ ์ํ ๊ณผ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฎ์๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธด๋ค. ์ค์ค๋ก ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ ์ํ ์ํ, ์ฆ ๊ตฌ๋ํ์ ํฅํ ์ํ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ํ๋์์๋ ์ด๋ค ์ํฉ์์๋ ํ์ ๋ด ์ด์๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ์ด์์ ํฅํด ์ ์งํ๋ ์์ ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ์ ์ฌํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณธ๋ค.
์๊ฐ๋ '์'์ ์ธํ๊ณผ ํน์ฑ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์ด์ ๋์ ๋ค๋ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒฝ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์นํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ค์น๋ ๊ด๋๊ฐ์ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฐํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก '์'๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ฅ๋ ํด์์ ์ ๋ฐํ๋ค. ์ค์ฑํ ์กฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ฐ์์ ์ธ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณผํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฃจ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ฌ๋ฃ์์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋จํ ๊ฟ๊ฟ์๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ์ด์๊ณผ ์์
์ ์๋ง์ด ๋ด๊ธด ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ด๊ฐ์ ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ธต์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ ํฌ๋ง์ ํฅํ ์ ์ง์ ๋๋ผ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
Stones, Birds, and the Sculpture Language towards Ideals
This exhibition sheds light on artist Oh Chae Hyun, who was born and raised in Gyeongju and has continued her stone sculpture practice with a distinctly Korean sensibility. He has worked with granite, exploring diverse themes such as tigers, lotus flowers, Buddha, and human figures. This exhibition focuses on the theme of "birds," showcasing his "Flying Bird" series, in which these birds are flying towards ideals. Through these works, Oh Chae Hyun explores the possibility of new interpretations beyond the mere representation of bird forms.
The artist has fond memories of loving birds as a child, running around fields in Gyeongju with his brothers and chasing them. However, he never caught one because the birds would fly away whenever he approached them. This childhood memory served as a source of nourishment for the artist, and he has found and reflected himself through the birds that are curious and therefore always look straight ahead. Naturally, the birds become a symbolic subject, embodying his ideals and aspirations.
Since the past, the birds have been considered as a medium that delivers human aspirations to the gods and the divine voice to humans. Totem poles at village entrances in Korea symbolize the birds which bear this traditional significance. Meanwhile, the act of a bird flying is considered similar to religious meditation and asceticism practice in Buddhism. It is like a practice toward self-enlightenment or a path toward seeking enlightenment. The artist believes that people striving to live and survive through challenges in the modern society are similar to the image of these birds striving toward their ideals.
He has been captivated by the form and characteristics of the "birds," and therefore has sculpted the stones and arranged them freely across the gallery walls. Such installation stimulates the curiosity of the audience, prompting them to contemplate the "birds" in their own unique way and therefore leading to expanded interpretations. Sculptor Oh Chae Hyun has consistently dreamed of harmonizing with granite without overdoing or artificially manipulating the material. Through this exhibition, which embodies the artist's ideals and artistic aspirations, the audience will experience an artistic experience that allows to view birds from multiple perspectives and feel a striving for hope.
Art Works
OH Chae Hyun
์ค์ฑํ
๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ์
Granite
๊ฐ๋ณ์ค์น, 2025
OH Chae Hyun
์ค์ฑํ
์
Granite
23.5x12.5x45.2cm, 2025

