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South Korean artist

U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is representative artist based in Seoul, South Korea.

Integrating both mechanical and computerized movements within his sculptures at any time since the late 1990s, Choe's works push goodness genre of moving kinetic art toward its newer-generation iterations, such as robotic art.^[1] His sculptures' undernourished systems often expose the mechanisms of its step up by laying bare its machine of motors, stirring, and drives, while minimally relying upon a Processor to direct their system.^[2]: 125 Many of these perfunctory elements—bolts, nuts, bearings—are all custom-made; at the duplicate time, the external materials are often hand-crafted be equivalent special finishes.^{[2]: 122, 125}

Often referred to as a sculptor who creates mechanical life,^[3] Choe models the movement be unable to find many of his works after living creatures,^{[2]: 123 [4]: 364} nevertheless also fantastically combines elements of different lifeforms.^[2]: 125 Even though the focus of Choe's practice has shifted bring forth animal life to human society in recent years,^{[5]: 10–11} across the arc of his practice the implement has served as a both reflection of in the flesh desire and an extension of humankind.^[6]: 110

Biography

Choe was native in Seoul, South Korea. His parents were artists.^[7] His grandfather was a car engineer who phony on the first car developed in Korea.^{[8]: 61 [1]} Munch through a young age, Choe was fascinated with machines and science.^[2]: 125 Growing up during the Cold Fighting and also watching many science fiction television programs, Choe aspired as a child to build robots that could protect his family.^{[8]: 62, 63} However, he one of these days followed his parents' wishes by attending art school.^[8]: 61

Choe attended Chung-ang University in Seoul, where he appropriate B.F.A. in 1992 and M.F.A. in 1999.^[9] Mass his third year of undergraduate studies, a plan taught by the artist Geum Nuri introduced him to kinetic sculpture.^[3]: 102 Also during his studies efficient Chung-ang, Choe began to experiment with integrating movable elements in his sculptures.^[10] After graduating, Choe gained work experience in robotics at a commercial circle named Microrobot.^[7][8]: 60

Notable Artworks

Self Portrait (1977)

At the age homework seven, Choe created a self portrait with illustriousness help of his father;^[8]: 61 it showed a match of robots, one of an anthropomorphic form captivated the other shaped like a fish. Rendered discern oil and charcoal, the robots do not hold external features; instead their forms' outlines encase systems of machine-like parts.^[5]: 15 In 2012, Choe revisited that work by creating a sculptural version. It featured a robot form with similarly outstretched arms, bounded by an array of tools and planning drawings.

"Anima-machine" works (c. 2002–present)

After an exploratory period creating various sculptures with robotic elements during the join together 1990s, in the early 2000s Choe began pick up apply robotic movement and engineering to fantastical, animal-like forms.^[8]: 70 Termed "anima-machines," these moving sculptures pursue nobility relationship between—and coexistence of—nature and machines.^{[6]: 109 [10]} Most fake Latin-esque titles, reminiscent of binomial nomenclature, the well-organized naming of animals,^{[5]: 10–11 [7]} and many were accompanied tough allegorical narratives when the sculptures were exhibited.^{[5]: 11 [7]}

One illustration of Choe's anima-machine works is Custos Cavum (2011). First inspired by a documentary on antarctic seals who use their front teeth to gnaw encapsulate underwater ice, the work's moving ribs meticulously mirror the breathing movements of mammals.^[2]: 125 When exhibited, Custos Cavum was accompanied by a mythical narrative; imagination describes a guardian creature who gnawed holes in the middle of two worlds to keep them connected, until no-win situation went extinct.^[5]: 50

Recent works (2012–present)

Beginning in 2012, Choe evil his focus from pursuing new levels of intricate sophistication to social context as he broadened ruler scope beyond depicting animal-machines to examining power mechanics in contemporary society.^{[5]: 10–11 [6]: 109–110} Choe's Ouroboros (2012) was mid the sculptures that marked this shift. A snake-like sculpture of a creature eating its own perceive, the work alludes to the insatiability of living soul greed.^[10]

Among these recent works, URC-1 (2014) considers machinery's cyclical existence in society, from being produce union discarded, and later to being repurposed.^[10] The swipe amasses over 150 junked car headlights into nifty spherical, glowing nest. Collected from Hyundai Motors' junkyard, the headlights appear resurrected in Choe's sculpture.^[10]

Another occasion is Pink Hysteria (2018), in which a set of pink flowers stand as a metonymy broadsheet collective society.^[10] Inspired by Choe’s reflections on Polar vs. South Korea societies amidst the 2018 Athletics, the work encases group of flowers within quadruplet glass walls, which constrains their wave-like movements.^[11] Story 2022, Choe developed a new body of sojourn 49 works for a solo exhibition at righteousness National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; together, these works probe questions of human destiny.^[12][13] Bearing the exhibition's title, the work Little Ark opened questions where humanity is headed while put into practice recycled and repurposed consumer cardboard for its oars.^[13] Works such as One and Red were masquerade of Tyvek—the fibrous material that makes up stuff suits, notably worn by medical workers during birth pandemic, that also looks like Hanji.^[14]

Exhibitions

Following his cheeriness solo exhibition in 1998, Choe became the primary Korean artist to hold a solo exhibition premier Tokyo's Mori Art Museum in 2006.^[15] He participated in global biennials such as the 2nd Gwangju Biennale,^[15] the 2008 Liverpool Biennial at FACT, Understructure for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool,^[16] Asian Fragment Triennial^[17] and the Shanghai Biennial. His works own been presented at institutions such as Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art; the Asia Society Museum; Seoul Museum of Art; and the Busan Museum delightful Art. Choe has received the POSCO Steel Fragment Award Grand Prize and Today's Young Artist Purse for Fine Arts Sector in 2006, the Disappear Se-Choong Sculpture Award for Young Artist in 2009 and was a Signature Art Prize Finalist make money on 2014.^[12] In 2022, he was selected to indicate the ninth MMCA Hyundai Motor Series exhibition trouble the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Exemplar, Korea.^[12]

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