Work 8403
Kyung-hee Hong's Work 8403 explores the fluidity of metal and the tension between the vessel and its attenuated armature. She often uses kuromido, an alloy of copper with 1 percent metallic arsenic commonly associated with mokume-gani, the layering of metals used in seventeenth-century sword fittings.
Artwork Details
- Title: Work 8403
- Designer: Professor Kyung-hee Hong (Korean, born 1954)
- Date: 1984
- Medium: Copper and Kuromido
- Dimensions: 10 3/4 × 23 1/2 × 12 in., 15.1 lb. (27.3 × 59.7 × 30.5 cm, 6.8 kg)
- Classification: Metalwork-Copper
- Credit Line: Gift of Chunghi Choo, 1992
- Object Number: 1992.207.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Kyung-hee Hong
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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