Video: Handing over scrap paper: scary sculptures from old newspapers by artist Yun-Woo Choi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New York Korean artist Yun-woo cho (Yun-woo choi) creates eerie art objects - which at best resemble cave stalactites and stalagmites - from the most common waste paper. The unconventional choice of the initial "raw material" gives the spectacular sculptures an additional semantic dimension.
From a distance, it may seem that there is nothing special about the sculpture, and only on closer examination it becomes clear that on all the angular forms created by Yun-Wu Cho's hands, separate printed words have been preserved. For a long time, a newspaper that was not interesting to anyone, published a month or a year ago, is experiencing a new birth, and the meaning of words gives way to the beauty of an abstract geometric shape.
Collecting newspaper and magazine pages, the sculptor holds them together and shapes them with wire and resin. Each sculpture is valuable in and of itself, and, being gathered together in the space of several gallery rooms, together they create a rather peculiar atmosphere.
Many contemporary artists - for example, Will Kurtz and Kim Rugg - use old newspapers as material to create their art objects. Yun-Wu Cho's creativity, however, cannot be called imitative. Unlike the same Kim Rugg, who plays with the newspaper form, he fundamentally denies the original meaning of the material, giving it a new one - perhaps even more important.
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