Kim Han-sa

Ceramics is a genre of the oldest history amongst various styles of art. It possesses the unique quality of the materials utilized constituting of the overall basic elements of space. Ceramics – formed through the use of the basics of life, earth, water, and fire.

People who work with earth are generally naive and genial. This also held true for potter Hansa Kim. His studio set up in Ahn Sung in Kyung Ki Do was a magnificent place where his old dreams came true, surrounded by nature, and his good-natured appearance, with his earthy overalls and his hat was that of a person who, through years of spinning wheel work, figured out every element of earth, hence able to secretly communicate with the sound of the earth.

His celadon pieces, which hold their objective in the reinterpretation of tradition and modern transformation, have already received great reaction and praises at the Japanese Fukuoka art gallery, the Italian Milano Palazzo Isimbardi, and the Canadian Craft museum.

— Yangdong Kim, Dean of Kye Myung University