Park Eun-sun (sculptor)

Park Eun-sun
Born	1965 South Korea (now Pietrasanta, Italy)
Nationality	Korean
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Kyung Hee University
Known for	sculpture
Korean name
Hangul	박은선
Hanja	朴垠宣
Revised Romanization	Bak Eunseon
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Ŭnsŏn

Park Eun-sun (hangul: 박은선, born in 1965) is a South Korean sculptor.

Academic career

• Dept. of Sculpture, National Academy of Fine Art, Carrara, Italy
• Dept. of Sculpture, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Early life

Park is a Korean sculptor. He has been working in Pietrasanta, Italy since 1993. As this area is nearby Carrara where is notable for marble quarry, it is the best atelier for him to create artworks. Park's pieces are featured with two different colors of marble and cracks. The first exhibition that attracted the public's attention was "Mostra di scutura in omaggio a SEM" in 1997. It was held by Pietrasanta and he was invited to the group exhibition. His unique artworks have artistically valued, being evaluated as abstract oriental sculptures. After that, he has had lots of solo and group exhibitions in Europe including Italy, Germany and France etc. He also won the prize from Sun Gallery in 2009^[1]

a statue at Florence's airport

Awards

• 2015 Order of Cultural Merit-Seongnuy Medal^[2]
• 2009 – Sun Prize in the Arts, Sun Gallery^[3]

External links

• Official website

1. Prize-winning Work
2. KBS TV Successage^[4]
3. Lo scultore coreano che ha messo radici nella Piccola Atene (IL TIRRENO 7 December 2014)
4. Inaugurata la nuova esposizione di sculture all'aeroporto di Pisa„Arte all'aeroporto: inaugurata la nuova esposizione di sculture dello scalo (Pisa Today 27 June 2015)
5. 이탈리아서 활동 조각가 박은선 "여백의 미 통해" (Yonhapnews 7 Sept.. 2015)
6. '이탈리아 장인'이 인정한 동양의 남자 '박은선' (Edaily, 14 Sept.. 2015)

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