Interview with Ryungjae Jung, Young Artist Award Finalist

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INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW WITH RYUNGJAE JUNG

Finalist for AJF’s 2020 Young Artist Award

by Bonnie Levine

AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award four finalists and winner—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary work.

While studying computer programs, Ryungjae Jung became fascinated by metal craft and began studies in the field. In 2012, he attended Pforzheim University, in Germany, as an exchange student, and visited Alchimia, in Italy, in 2015 after being selected as the winner of the Alchimia Award at the Joya Fair, in Spain. Since finishing the graduate program for metal craft and jewelry at Kookmin University in 2016, he has exhibited in Europe, America, and Asia. His work features a direct relationship between jewelry and the human body through 3D printing and traditional metal crafting techniques, with a focus on movement. Thousands of chains are printed through digital replication in the form of indeterministic bundles. This provides the chance of “coincident luck” that represents the perfection of the limitless possibility of choice, transformation, and adjustment when the work is on the body.

Image caption: Ryungjae Jung, The Motion, 2019, polyamide, silver, 150 x 70 x 40 mm, photo: Kc studio

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