Video: Korean art against dictatorship: ruthless sculptures by Choi Xooang
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sometimes, in order for a person to regain consciousness, he needs to be properly whipped on the cheeks. In art, this rule also applies: shock and ugliness is the best way to convey the perversity of society and the world. So, frightening sculptures by a South Korean master Choi xooang - reaction arts of Korea to the suffering of people under an iron heel dictatorships.
North Korea - a state that has long become a byword in the civilized world: a regime that starves its people, threatens its neighbors with nuclear warheads and shamelessly lies at every step - is condemned by everyone who has ever encountered it. The political leader of Korea gives all his strength to become an evil and stupid caricature of a dictator: he is a genius composer, an architect, a great writer, and a separate subject in Korean schools. But the speech in the sculptures of Choi Xooang is not about Kim Jong Il, but about his people, who only a couple of years ago stopped literally starving to death.
The lips on the eyeless face whisper something into the greedy ear - after all, it is forbidden to speak loudly. Pleading eyes and outstretched bunches of hands are the personification of the plight of the people: the average official salary in modern Korea is 2-3 dollars a month at the price of a kilogram of rice in a dollar. But the circle of faces, fenced off from the whole world by their own backs of their heads, does not want to notice anything. As you can see, words fail to convey tragedy of North Korea the way it does sculpture art.
The second Choi Xooang exhibit is called " Asperger syndrome"- when a person, due to disturbances in the brain, in fact, turns into a plant, or, as we say, a" vegetable ". Vegetable peoplethat grow on the beds of a totalitarian state and dry up from the thirst for freedom - this is the subject of the artist's comprehension. The style in which the sculptor works can be called hyperrealism: with the help of a ruthless grotesque, he helps to bring out the features of reality. The material of his work is polymer clay.
The mushroom mushroom that blooms in one of the sculptures of Choi Xooang is a symbol of the danger of each dictatorship for all mankind. Hardly art of korea will be able to defeat the inhuman "leaders" - but without drawing attention to the problem, it cannot be solved.
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