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April 8th, 2009

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

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.

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

TheThinkMovement.com by j. sakiya sandifer

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