Park Eun-sun (, born in 1965) is a South Korean sculptor.
Early life Park was born in South Korea in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Kyung Hee University is Seoul, and later obtained a degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara. Since 1993 he has been living and working in Pietrasanta, Italy. Park uses marble from Carrara, about 20 km from Pietrasanta, for much of his work. His pieces often feature two different colors of marble with prominent cracks, and are usually abstract. The first exhibition that attracted the public's attention was "Mostra di scutura in omaggio a SEM" in 1997. It was held in Pietrasanta and he was invited to the group exhibition. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe including in Italy, Germany and France (Musée Bernard Boesch) etc.
Awards 2021 - Honorary citizenship of the Municipality of Pietrasanta 2018 - Premio Fratelli Rosselli "Pietrasanta e la Versilia nel mondo" 2015 - Order of Civil Merit-Seongnuy Medal 2009 – Sun Prize in the Arts, Sun Gallery'선미술상'받은 박은선씨 개인전 "대리석에 욕망과 중용을 나란히 새겼죠" (Hankyung, 11 November 2009)
Solo exhibitions Source:
2020 Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italia
2019–2020 Giacomo Puccini Square, Viareggio, Italy Pisa International Airport ‘Galileo Galilei’, Pisa, Italy Florence International Airport ‘Amerigo Vespucci’, Florence, Italy
2019 Hippodrome San Rossore, Pisa, Italy Art Of The World Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States of America Monumental Exhibition for Island National Festival 1st Edition, Sam-Hak Island, Mokpo, South Korea
2018 International Award ‘Pietrasanta and Versilia in the World’, Pietrasanta, Italy ThePage Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Art Busan 2018, BEXCO Square, Busan, South Korea Le Musée Galeria d’Art, La Ville Bernard Boesch, La Baule, France Hotel Principe, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2017 Park Eun Sun e il Monumentale, Palazzo Panichi, Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy Duomo Square, Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pontile di Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy Mazzini Square, Viareggio, Italy Vecchiato Arte Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy City Center, Padua, Italy Vecchiato Arte Gallery, Padua, Italy
2016 Korean Cultural Center, Rome, Italy Piazzale Michelangelo, Piazza Pitti, Aeroporto A. Vespucci, Giardino delle Rose, San Miniato al Monte, Palazzo Vecchio - Cortile dei Leoni, Florence, Italy
2015 Pisa International Airport 'Galileo Galilei’, Pisa, Italy Florence International Airport ‘Amerigo Vespucci’, Florence, Italy Forte dei Marmi, Italy Villa Ghirlanda, Cinisello, Milan, Italy Forte di Bard (Museum), Bard, Aosta, Italy Art Center Materima - Studio Copernico, Casalbeltrame, Novara, Italy Altes Bad Pfäfers, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands
2014 Traiano’s Market - Museum of Fori Imperiali, Roma, Italy Lacke&Farben Gallery, Berlin, Germany Le Musée Galeria d’Art, La Villa Boesch, Atlantia, La Baule, France City Center, La Baule, France
2013 City Center, Lugano, Switzerland Hotel Principe Leopoldo, Lugano, Switzerland Urbengsschlass Gallery, Hesperange, Luxembourg ’La Comune de Hesperange’ Park, Hesperange, Luxembourg Materima, Studio Copernico, Casalbetrame, Novara, Italy
2012 Villa Bertelli Foundation, Forte dei Marmi, Italy Carlina Gallery, Turin, Italy Arena Studio d’Arte, Verona, Italy
2011 Miniaci Gallery, Milan, Italy 'MARMOMACC 2011’ Henraux Foundation, Verona, Italy
2010 City CenterAlba, Miroglio, Alba, Italy City Center, Barolo, Italy Dosi Gallery, Busan, South Korea
2009 Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy Quattro Mori, Milan, Italy Sun Gallery, SUN Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2007 ‘La Versiliana’ Park, Pietrasanta, Italy
2006 Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2005 San Giorgio Gallery, Milan, Italy
2004 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Carlina Gallery, Turin, Italy Swinger Art Gallery, Verona, Italy
2002 Studio SEM, Pietrasanta, Italy
2001 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea RHO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany
1997 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1996 Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany Zehntscheuer Gallery, Münsingen, Germany
1995 Gadarte Gallery, Florence, Italy Duemme Gallery, Genoa, Italy
Group exhibitions Source:
2020 “Materia”, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy
2019 Art Busan BEXCO, Busan, South Korea 17th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea
2018 I Marmi di Henraux, San Miniato, Italy Art Busan BEXCO, Busan, South Korea Monaco Yacht Show, Montecarlo 17th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Art Fair od Bologna, Italy ‘Park Eun Sun e il suo Atelier’, Sala Putti, Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy 16th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Arte Downtown, Padua, Italy Arte Padova 2016, Vecchiato Arte, Padua, Italy 15th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea Sculpture Biennale Changwon, Changwon, South Korea
2015 BARCU International Art Fair of Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia Sculpture Triennale, Bad Ragaz, Vaduz, Switzerland FIA International Art Fair of Caracas, Venezuela 14th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea CONTEXT International Art Fair od Miami, United States of America
2014~2015 ‘Michelangelo e La Versilia’ Italian Cultural Center, New York, United States of America
2014 ‘ART STAGE’ Singapore 2014, Singapore 13th ‘KIAF' Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea
2013 Ocean Reef Islands, Panama City, Luz Botero Fine Art Gallery, Panama Seoul Art Show 2013, Seoul, South Korea 12th ‘KIAF’ Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea ‘BERLINER LISTE’ 2013 Contemporary Art Fair, Berlin, Germany The First Biennial of the South in Panama 2013, ‘Summoning Worlds’, Panama K-Sculpture 2013 Korea Sculpture Festival, Fiesole, Italy Sun Gallery ‘Korea Abstract’, Sun Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Shanshui Man, Lig Art SpaceSeoul, South Korea ‘Tra Cielo e Terra’, Ascona, Switzerland ‘Arte Padova 2012' Arena Studio d’arte, Padua, Italy Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Art Fair Bologna 2012, Galleria Carlina, Bologna, Italy K-Sculpture 2012 Korea Sculpture Festival, Pietrasanta, Italy
2011 'Sign Off Design’, Slide Art, Venice, Italy 29th Korean Galleries Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea Versilia Wine Arte, Pietrasanta, Italy 'Sign Off Design’, Palazzo delle Esposizione, Turin, Italy
2010 28th Korean Galleries Art Fair, Busan, South Korea 'Scultura in Valigia’, Insa Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Museo del Vino, Barolo, Italy Marmo Fiera, CosMave, Carrara, Italy
2009 (New acquisitions 2008) National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, South Korea 'Scultura in Valigia', Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, United States of America
2008 I Segreti...del Mestiere - Artisti per il Duomo, Pitrasanta, Italy Scultura Internazionale - Scultura Natura Oriente Occidente 2008, Turin, Italy Oisterwijk Sculture 2009, Entienne&Van den Del, Expressivee Contemporary Art, Netherlands 17 Artisti Rappresentanti Coreani di Oggigiorno, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2007 ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Harold Martin Botanical Gardens, University of Leicester, England
2006 Art Fair ‘LINEART’, Ghent, Belgium Holland Art Fair 2006 (HAF), DenHaag, Netherlands Salon Primavera Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Sculture EN PLEIN AIR, Turin, Italy Absolute Art Gallery, Brugge, Belgium
2005 MPV Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands Art Fair, Studio Copernico, Verona, Italy ‘I Segni e le Forme, Due Passi nell’Arte’, Pietrasanta, Italy Scultura ‘Amor Marmoris’, Levigliani, Italy Arte Fiera, Sangiorgio Gallery, Bari, Italy The 5th Anniversary Exhibition of Samsung TESCO, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Corea del Sud 'The Best of…’, Insa Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2004 ‘The Milano International Modern Arts Show’, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
2003 Park Ryu Sook 20th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Harold Martin Botanical Gardens, University of Leicester, England Art Fair ‘Bologna 2003’, Galleria Carlina, Bologna, Italia Art Fair ‘MIART’, Galleria Carlina, Swinger Art, Milano, Italia Art Fair, Swinger Art Gallery, Verona, Italy Magnetismi delle Forme, Scultori in Centrale ENEL Santa Barbara di Capriglia, Italy ‘Arte per la Vita’, Hotel Kraft, Florence, Italy Heiri Festival 2003, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea ‘Sculture Carezzate da un Vento Etrusco’, ENEL, Piombino, Italy
2002 Art Fair ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Art Fair ‘Altissima’, Turin, Italy Art Fair ‘Post’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea World Cup Stadium Installation, Suwon, South Korea ‘L’acqua e la vita, Magnetismi delle Forme’, ENEL, Italy
2001 Art Fair ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands
2000 Arte Fiera ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Die45, Kunst Messe München2000, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands Arte&Città 2000, Bologna, Italy
1999 Arte Fiera ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands
1998 Arte Fiera ‘Basel', Switzerland Sculture On The Wall, Galleria Sai, Seoul, South Korea The Swiss Grand Hotel 10thAnniversary&GalleriaSamtuh’s, Seoul, South Korea ‘L’Infinito Possibili’, Pianeta Azzurro Museum, Rome, Italy Park Ryu Sook Gallery 15th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea
1997 Unformed, 4 Scultori, Main Galley, Seoul, South Korea Mostra di Scultura in omaggio a SEM, Pietrasanta, Italy
1996 Open Arte96 München Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany Chilford Hall, Cambridge, England ‘Two Sculptors’, Galleria Ars Polonia, Varsavia, Poland In attesa dell’Alba, Pietrasanta, Italy Scultori e Pittori Contemporanei, Zehntscheuer, Germany
1995 Il Gatto, Florence, Italy Art Fair ‘MIART’, Milan, Italy 1st Natura ut Scultura, Camaiore, Italy
1994 Pietra Lavorata, San Nicolò, Italy Cardo D’Argento, Florence, Italy
1993 Hoo In Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Ho-Am SamSung Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
1991 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
External links
Prize-winning Work KBS TV Successage조각가 박은선,15일(토) KBS1-TV ‘글로벌 성공시대’ 출연 (June 14, 2013 The Herald Business) Lo scultore coreano che ha messo radici nella Piccola Atene (IL TIRRENO 7 December 2014) 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) 이탈리아서 활동 조각가 박은선 "여백의 미 통해" (Yonhapnews 7 Sept.. 2015) '이탈리아 장인'이 인정한 동양의 남자 '박은선' (Edaily, 14 Sept, 2015)
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