Mok-su South Korean, b. 1973
Known only as Mok-us, the artist has adopted woodcarving as a meditational practice to calm his restless mind. Trained as a classical musician, the artist had to leave music behind to support his inventor father’s business in Poland. Whilst in Poland, he taught himself to work with wood to make himself a classical guitar. Whilst making this first instrument, Mok-su found a sense of peace and mindfulness in the solitary practice. After returning to South Korea, he continues to work with wood. He found a house surrounded by mountains with space to work and here he mastered his chip-carving skills. Using these skills to make everything from toys for his child to furniture for his wife and speakers to listen to music. The mediating artist goes to his studio before the sun rises and immerses himself in carving in a silent state of mind.
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Collect
Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE London 1 - 5 Mar 2023For Collect 2023, we will focus on the new generation of ceramic artists and introduce two European- based Korean artists, exhibiting in London for the first time. Yusun Won, living and working in Cardiff and Lydia SJ Park based in Oslo. Both have already achieved international recognition for their unique...Read more -
Korean Blue
Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE London 2 - 6 Nov 2022Unlike Yves Klein, the colour blue was a hue that meant home to the pioneering Korean painter Kim Whan-gi who moved to Paris in the 1950s and became the father of the Korean abstract art movement. Its purity, transparency and tranquillity reflect the virtue of Korean traditions that played a...Read more -
Silent Mind
Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE London 14 - 25 Sep 2022Exhibition by Lloyd Choi Gallery for London Design Festival 2022 to explore the meditative aesthetic of Korean craftsmanship and how this can help us find tranquillity and consolation in turbulent times. The exhibition title reflects the calm and mindful status of the craft-artists Lloyd Choi Gallery works with, whose practices...Read more