Choi Xoo Ang Kim Hyunsoo Kyuin Shim M u B o ya n P a t r i c i a P i cc i n i n i
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I Lobo You seeks to explore and share some of the best projects within the art world. Open to various art form and expressions, this e-book includes some of the best contemporary sculptures projects, signed by a curated selection of talented artists who are part our inspirational world.
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Chen Wenling Pag. 04
Choi Xoo Ang Pag. 08
Kim Hyunsoo Pag. 11
Kyuin Shim Pag. 15
M u B o ya n Pag. 18
P a t r i c i a P i cc i n i n i Pag. 21
Chen Wenling Global crisis scheme
Chen Wenling is a contemporary Chinese sculptor currently based in Beijing. He was born in 1969 Province, China. Received Bachelor of Arts from the Sculpture Department of Xiamen Academy of Art and Design and Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. Chen has participated in many solo and group expositions and his work is always taking attentions by creativity and originality on interpretations. The sculpture above – entitled ‘What You See Might Not Be Real’ – was created in response to the global financial crisis. The bull represents Wall Street, while the devil pinned to the wall portrays Bernard Madoff, operator of the largest ponzi scheme in history. We love not only the imagery and subject matter Chen tackles but also the scale on which he creates it. In this case, bigger is definitely better.
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His work is always taking attentions by creativity and originality on interpretations.
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Choi Xoo Ang Dramatic boundaries
The previous worf of Choi Xoo Ang are impressive hyper realism that surprises many readers and visitors of Chooi exhibitions. This time we will show even more works from this artist that may surprise you. His dramatic sculptures have no boundries to try to show us his point of view. Choi Xoo Ang creates figurative sculptures out of clay and resin that examines human rights, society’s pathological state, and sex and gender politics among other themes. The distorcion of the reality is something amazing in his work where you can feel a little of the real in the whole fantasy. Without boundries he creates pieces that you can’t be indifferent or even shoked.
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Examines human rights, society’s pathological state, and sex and gender politics among other themes
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Kim Hy u n s o o Childhood memories
Kim Hyunsoon is a Korean artist that creates unique sculptures. His hyper-realistic sculptures are about his childhood memories and dreams which are seasoned with delicate and subtle sentimentalism. Kim Hyunsoo studied sculpture in Hongik University and its graduate school. His works have been shown through the two solo exhibitions he had at Kwanhoon Gallery (2005, Seoul) and Gallery Hyundai (2009, Seoul) and many group shows at DOOSAN Gallery, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Gallery Hyundai and Ulsan Museum. In his works, the two contrasting figures are reflective of the conditions by which the moderns are confronted. As suggested by the arrow in the hand of the young boy, the social and realistic confinements prevent modern people including himself from realizing their childhood dreams and maintaining their innocence. The will to life has not yet been lost. With this sculptures, the artist show us very clearly his point of view and its critics to modern society. c ontemporary sculptures. 12
With this sculptures, the artist show us very clearly his point of view and its critics to modern society.
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Kyuin Shim Human alterations
Contemporary art by Kyuin Shim deserved our attention due to his creativity. Based in Seoul, Korea, he is a digital artist and sculptor who executes dark and poignant visions by altering the human body. His latest sculptural series “Black Black” features several monochromatic renditions of mannequin-like figures whose bodies seem to disintegrate before one’s eyes. Featuring different groupings of feet sticking out from under a cubicle-like prism, the piece evokes the smothering closeness of an unhealthy relationship.
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Mannequin-like figures whose bodies seem to disintegrate before one’s eyes
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Mu B o ya n Social Resources
Contemporary art by Mu Boyan’s is really fantastic as so unusual it is. It has the power to surprise and shock with his hyper realistic sculptures. Mu Boyan was born in 1976 in China. Mu graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Mu Boyan displayed his series work, “Bath Center” in the public bath house of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is said, that group of sculpture was accepted to make for a bath center a job for living. After that, Mu Boyan has concentrated continuously on portraying the images of a fat person. Basically Mu Boyan created sculptures of fat man… naked. Flying, climbing, standing this fat cartoon characters come to life in fine art sculpture form. The fat in the west, can be understood the bodily overload caused by unscientifically diet structure, this crowd even occupy about 50% in some countries, it’s really ordinary but in China, when it mentions the fat person, it symbolizes the life abundance. Today, the gap between rich and poor enlarges day by day, the fatty no longer has the symbolic significance as “laughing than growing fat,” but is often explained visually as “occupying social resources excessively.” And trought this sculptures the artist want to pass this message so we can have another way of looking at the “fatties”. c ontemporary sculptures. 19
Is often explained visually as “occupying social resources excessively.”
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P atr i c i a P i cc i n i n i Hybrid Realism
Patricia Piccini is known all around the world for her “mutation” of the hyperrealist human, or you may say, anthropomorphized forms that are inspired by her research about tissue engineering. Using foam, silicon, paints and human hair the sculptures look so real that it’s even strange to face them. You will always ask yourself “Is it really a sculpture, or its a quite person with some abnormalities?”. This combination from the realism and the hybrid anatomical world gives it a touch of some weird and sort of tragic and amazing at the same time ambience. “Is the frontier that separates the natural from the artificial really clear? Apparently so, although for Patricia Piccinini the limits between one and the other are ever more permeable. The strange world that she creates, although we may findthis difficult to accept, resides very close to our daily reality. Her incredible creations, which appear to be taken from a science-fictional film, refer us directly to life as it is in today’s 21stCentury.” (Laura Fernandez Orgaz in interview with Patricia) But she is not only about mutant humans, you will love the mutations of vespas that she did, that almost like a love story they come in pairs always in some romantic like gestures. Her exhibitions have been all around the world and she no stranger to big galleries like the ARTER in istanbul, or the Haunch of Venision… and many others, I could really spend a entire day counting all the exhibitions that she had already. c ontemporary sculptures. 22
A combination from the realism and the hybrid anatomical world gives it a touch of some weird and sort of tragic and amazing at the same time ambience.
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