1935년 함경남도 원산에서 태어나 일제강점기와 해방, 한국전쟁의 파고를 겪으며 살아남았다. 홍익대학교에서 조각을 공부한 뒤 파리 국립고등미술학교(École des Beaux-Arts)로 유학을 떠나 그곳에서 이응노, 한묵, 문신 등 파리의 당대 예술가와 교류하고, 새로운 조각 기법과 판화를 공부하며 예술 세계를 확장했다. 귀국 후 상명여자대학교 조소과 교수로 재직하며 작업을 이어가던 그는 1984년 조카를 보러 찾아간 아르헨티나의 대자연에 깊이 매료되었고, 한국에서의 안정적 삶을 뒤로하고 야생의 재료를 찾아 그곳에서 40년 동안 왕성한 작품 활동을 했다.
그는 70년이 넘는 시간 동안 조각의 본질을 탐구해온 예술가이자 ‘조각-회화’라는 독자적인 장르를 개척한 작가다. 나무와 돌을 주재료로 삼아 조각과 회화의 경계를 넘나들며 오로지 작업에 매진했다. 서로 다른 둘이 만나 하나가 되고, 그 하나가 다시 둘로 나뉜다는 ‘합이합일 분이분일(合二合一 分二分一)’ 철학은 작가의 예술 세계를 관통하는 핵심 철학이다.
남미에서 수십 차례 개인전을 열어 입지를 다진 반면 국내에서는 알려지지 않은 편이었으나, 2023년 서울시립남서울미술관 전시를 계기로 다시 조명받기 시작, 2024년 베니스비엔날레 본전시에 초청되며 전 세계의 주목을 받았다. 세계적인 아트플랫폼 아트시의 ‘2024 가장 영향력 있는 작가 10인’에 선정되었고, 2024년 문화체육관광부로부터 보관문화훈장을 수훈했다. 90대에 접어든 그는 지금도 전기톱을 들고 작업실에 서서 묵묵히 작업을 이어가고 있다.
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Leonard’s pathfinding writings and exhibitions have earned him acclaim as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on children’s books and the people who create them. He is the author of more than 25 award-winning biographies, histories, interview collections, and inside looks at the making of children’s literature’s enduring classics. His reviews and commentary have been featured in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Horn Book, and on numerous radio and television programs …
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Won Yu-hong
Won Yu-hong graduated from Hongik University’s College of Fine Arts and Dongguk Graduate School of Industrial Arts. He studied communication design at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Design in the United States. He has worked as a designer at Cheil Industries and Deskey Associates Inc. in New York City, and served as Dean of the College of Design and Graduate School of Design at Sangmyung University and President and Vice President of the Korean Typography Society. He is currently … -
Guho Choi
Studied Visual Design at Kaywon University of Art and Design. He is a graphic designer, application developer, and amateur musician. He runs the graphic design studio Guho Choi and is the developer, designer, and operator of Paperman, an app designed to assist with book production. -
Jeong Ha-rin
A typeface designer and graphic designer who studied Graphic Design at Yeungnam University and Yale University. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a type researcher and designer at Ahn Graphics’ Typography Institute, where he contributed to the creation of AG Choijeongho Typeface and AG Superblack Gothic. During the same period, he taught typeface design at the PaTI (Paju Typography Institute). -
Ko Young-lan
She studied design at Seoul National University and Cornell University Graduate School. She has contributed articles on design issues to the monthly Design and Designnet , and has expressed her vision of design as a social issue in the “Seoul Declaration of Industrial Designers” (2001), “Korea Design Declaration” (2007), “Charter of Women Designers” (2007), and “Human City Design Seoul Declaration” (2018). While a professor at Hansung University, she has served as a special exhibition curator … -
Jiang Difei
An architect who graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture at Tsinghua University (清華大學) and earned a Ph.D. in Urban Design from Tongji University(同济大学) and a Ph.D. in Geography from Peking University(北京大学). Currently, he serves as the Dean of the School of Architecture and Art at Central South University and as a professor at Peking University. He is the Vice President of the Hunan Provincial Architectural Society and the Hunan Provincial Architectural Artists Association, as well as … -
Ahn Graphics
Ahngraphics is a Korean design publishing company and company founded by visual designer Ahn Sang-soo on February 8, 1985. It was converted to a stock company in 1990 and has grown into a comprehensive design company covering four sectors: design, digital, media, and publishing. It was the first design company to introduce DTP into practice, and contributed to the development of Korean graphic design through high-quality editorial design centered on letters. It celebrated its 30th anniversary … -
Sugiura Kohei
Sugiura Kohei is a Japanese graphic designer and researcher in Asian iconography. Throughout his career, Sugiura has been a pioneer within the design world using processes that enables the visualization of consciousness in his large body of work that ranges from record jackets and posters, to books, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, to diagrams, stamps, and more. He is also active in promoting the study of traditional Asian cultures through producing innovative catalogue designs and … -
Edo Smitshuijzen
정부와 기업 클라이언트를 대상으로 다수의 중요한 대규모 아이덴티티 및 사이니지 프로젝트에서 디자인 책임자로 일했다. 그의 디자인 작업은 네덜란드 그래픽 디자인의 독특한 위상 정립에 일조한 바 있다. 저자가 개발한 기능별 종합 사이니지 패널 시스템은 디자인 클래식으로 자리 잡았고 지난 23년간 전 세계 시장에서 판매되었다. -
Yamazaki Ryo
CEO of studio-L, Social entrepreneur, Community Designer, Professor and Director of the department of Spatial Design in the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Vice President in RIPS, NPO. Born in Aichi, in 1973. After the university, he worked in SEN, inc., where he developed his skills and knowledge in landscape design advised by Mr. Shosuke Miyake, a founder of this firm. As well, he learnt social organization and relationship management from Dr. Fusayo Asano there. Then he founded studio-L … -
Han Baek-jin
Graduated from the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University and has been actively involved as a member of the Korean Society of Brand Design, the Korean Society of Basic Visual Design, and VIDAK, as well as an invited designer at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition. In 2005, served as a visiting professor at the University of Washington (UW) and is currently a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Dankook University’s College of Arts. Authored Brand Package … -
Lee Ji-eun
Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Hansung University in 1992 and completed a master’s program at the same university in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2006, completed the doctoral coursework at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication at Waseda University. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies …