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#16 by Heechan Kim

Vessel / Abstract Organic

Published: 07.03.2024

Vessel: #16 by Heechan Kim.Ash wood and copper wire. 2023.106.7 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm.Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024Unique pieceSpecial Mention Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024
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. This sculptural vessel demonstrates a masterful control of material and is the culmination of the artist’s desire to create a new form. Using traditional wood-bending techniques most often seen in boat-making, thinly planed strips of ash have been soaked in water and manipulated using a hot iron, before being sanded and stitched together with thin copper wire. The evolution of the form is guided by intuition; the result is a unique organic structure with a continuously smooth surface, and channels which flow through to a large central chamber..

Vessel: #16 by Heechan Kim.Ash wood and copper wire. 2023.106.7 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm.Awarded at: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024Unique pieceInside detail.Special Mention Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024
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. This sculptural vessel demonstrates a masterful control of material and is the culmination of the artist’s desire to create a new form. Using traditional wood-bending techniques most often seen in boat-making, thinly planed strips of ash have been soaked in water and manipulated using a hot iron, before being sanded and stitched together with thin copper wire. The evolution of the form is guided by intuition; the result is a unique organic structure with a continuously smooth surface, and channels which flow through to a large central chamber..

Special Mention Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024

This sculptural vessel demonstrates a masterful control of material and is the culmination of the artist’s desire to create a new form. Using traditional wood-bending techniques most often seen in boat-making, thinly planed strips of ash have been soaked in water and manipulated using a hot iron, before being sanded and stitched together with thin copper wire. The evolution of the form is guided by intuition; the result is a unique organic structure with a continuously smooth surface, and channels which flow through to a large central chamber.

Heechan Kim

Vessel
#16
2023
Ash wood and copper wire
106.7 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm
Unique piece

Awarded:: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024

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