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Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics

Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics features Korean buncheong ceramics from the fifteenth century to today. These ceramics are renowned for their white slip and adorned with diverse surface decoration techniques. The exhibition also includes modern and contemporary paintings inspired by the buncheong tradition.

Sophisticated, playful, and engaging, buncheong ceramics became a uniquely Korean art form in the late fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Elements of the buncheong style have remained relevant in modern and contemporary Korean art and have influenced other artistic expressions. Its refined and rustic aesthetic has been admired by generations of potters and artists in Korea and across the world.

Above: YOON Kwang-cho 윤광조 (Korean, born 1946), Windy Valley 바람골 (detail), 1998. Stoneware with white slip and ash glaze, 14⅛ × 27½ × 8⅝ in. (36 × 70 × 22 cm). National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea collection. © Estate of YOON Kwang-cho. Courtesy of MMCA, Korea.

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