Video: A critical look at the media in sculptures by Yoo Young-Wun
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Korean author Yoo Young-Wun creates vibrant sculptures from prints, magazines, newspapers and other printed literature. His heroes are known to everyone: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Mickey Mouse … But the general fascination with these characters and reverence for them did not extend to the author's sculptures. They resemble cartoons rather than the ideal images to which we are so accustomed.
Mass media is the strongest communication mechanism that controls the thoughts and emotions of people. The works of Korean author Yoo Young-Wun represent a critical reflection of the media that controls our consumer society. The artist awakens in the viewer an understanding of the true nature and characteristics of this phenomenon and draws our attention to how the mass media manipulates the thoughts and feelings of people.
To create his striking sculptures, Yoo Young-Wun uses pages from glossy magazines and old books, prints, flyers - in a word, everything that can be attributed to the mass media. At the same time, the author always tries to establish a correspondence between the material and the depicted character. For example, to create Kim Jong Il, the author took prints with images and texts dedicated to the Korean leader.
The heroes of the Yoo Young-Wun sculptures are well-known politicians, singers, actors, cartoon and comic book characters. However, the author depicts them all critically and even caricatured. He shows us that these are ordinary people who have become "stars" and idols of millions of people primarily thanks to the mass media. Among the sculptures of Yoo Young-Wun there are also television characters: The Simpsons, Catwoman, Spider-Man … The author notes that being created in the West and being the personification of Western culture, the cult of these heroes swept the whole world, spreading through films, animation, and the press.
Yoo Young-Wun was born in 1977. He holds two Master's degrees: Painting (Sejong University in Seoul, 2001) and Sculpture (Hong-Ik University in Seoul, 2007).
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