A R T I S T

YUN, GIL HYEON

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.

Yun, Gilhyeon
시가 되어준 하루 40 x 30 x 35cm 철, 자연석, 나무 2014

아버지이자 남편으로 살아가는 남자들의 소소한 이야기를 작품으로 풀어내고 있다.

조각가 윤길현은 산이나 강에 수집한 자연석을 직접 수집하여 깎고 다듬어 남자의 얼굴을 표현한다. 얼굴을 제외한 작품의 대부분은 철을 다듬어 조각하지만, 작품 곳곳에서 표현되어지는 디테일한 표현에는 스테인리스 밥그릇, 티스푼, 철 수세미 등 일상 속에서 흔히 마주하는 소재들이 사용되기도 한다. 이러한 작은 오브제의 등장은 다소 가라앉을 수 있는 남자의 분위기에 위트를 주며 활력을 불어넣는다.

74년 전주 출생인 윤길현은 누구나 알 법한 특별할 것 없는 일상의 이야기를 그려내고 있다. 버스를 기다리는 남자, 자전거를 타고 퇴근 하는 남자, 우산을 들고 있는 남자 등 평범한 남자의 하루를 이야기 하는 그의 작품 속 남자가 풍기는 분위기는 한 없이 평안함과 동시에 외로움이 느껴진다.

남자의 너른 어깨와 살짝 구부정한 뒷 모습에서 청춘의 시간들을 보낸 아버지의 모습을 발견하며 어렴풋한 향수를 느끼는 나를 볼 수 있다. 그리고 가만히 남자를 들여다 보면 마치 퇴근 후 들른 포장마차에서 마주한 옆자리 아저씨들이 나직한 목소리의 대화를 훔쳐 듣는 듯한 느낌을 받는다.