Yun Gil-hyun

The man in this work looks really comfortable but slightly lonely and tired. This artist deals with trivial stories of men who live with responsibility and duty for their family and dream as a father and a husband who is poor at their role.

On the way to work having a torn umbrella, a bench where a man was lost in meditation, the day he returned from his trip; those could be a ignorable trivial day, but the artist sculpts them with his own imagination and skills. And those works are recorded as a diary and become his days gone by. Those pale and pleasant times knock our hearts as a memory.

“All characters in my works have scar and human foible. I talk to the characters in the works a lot while working. By the time I get to know and he accepts me as a close one, the work is finally completed. “

Yun Gil-hyeon was born in Jeonju City, Korea, in 1973; majored in sculpture in Jeonju University; finished graduate school of the same university in 2004. His 10th private exhibition held in Insa Art Center in Seoul in 2014 was greatly successful; in the same year he sold out all his works displayed in Artshowbusan (ArtBusan, at present) and KIAF and realized his popularity. 

Characters‘ faces shown in his works are expressed by cutting and smoothly facing native rocks he collected by himself. Every line as deep as the stiff look but warn smile shown in the fathers‘ faces of this time when they think their family is expressed. 

Most of his works was sculpted by trimming iron, but stainless steel bowl, teaspoon, fork, bolt and nut shown here and there in his works give viewers wits in the somewhat heavy material and catch their eyes.
Yun has a sizable fan base and is much loved in the overseas art fair as well as in the domestic art fair.