s.m.art in 3d

April 8th, 2009

Korean sculptor Gwon Osang creates sculptures from hundreds of photographs of the original subjects, overlaying them onto lightweight life-sized mannequins.  Gwon’s quilted photo-sculptures are made by photographing different sections of the model’s anatomy and then piecing them together onto a plaster mannequin.

Osang, who graduated from the Hong-ik University sculpture department, has become one of the most recognised contemporary artists in Korea for his non-conventional approach to sculpture.

He says: “For me photography was not very interesting.  Not to say photography as a genre wasn’t interesting, but the people in that field, the photographers were not interesting.  This is my personal opinion but I think they are different from sculptors.”

His inspiration for the 3D photo sculpture series, titled Deodorant Type, was entirely practical. He says: “As an art student I often used heavy materials like stone, bronze and wood. I would often need to move my piece but it would be too heavy so I decided to make something lightweight…I developed a motto: never make anything that a friend and I can’t easily move!”

Gwon Osang is based in Korea and represented by Arario Gallery, Korea.

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