Category: Interviews

English / Korean  Interview with DEZINE Magazine What was your departure point for creating this new so called “photo-sculpture” or “hybrid sculpture”? Did you set your mind on discovering a new genre of sculpture from the beginning, did you wish to challenge traditional norms of sculpture by means of deconstruction or was it just an  experimentation that…

English / Korean Interview with Aesthetica Magazine Some of your works, specifically in the ‘Deodorant Type’ series, feature figures with deformities or additional limbs or appendages. Is this reflective of an interest in the “abnormal” physical nature of the human body? In the beginning of the ‘Deodorant Type’ series between the late 1990s and the early 2000s,…

English / Korean Interview with Questions Can you please tell us a few basic details about yourself? I’m a so-called asphalt kid born in 1974, raised in a middle-class family and the son of the generation who led the economic growth after the Korean War. Can you tell us your education background and experience? I studied sculpture both…

English / Korean Interview with The Manchester Evening News How did you first become interested in art? I first became interested in art as a thirteen year-old, when I began to a read monthly art magazine.  What is your background? (Studies, any major shows/exhibitions/claims to fame) I received both my bachelor’s and master’s degree in sculpture at…