Venus de Milo (2018) Sculpture by Seungwoo Kim
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Sculpture,
Stainless Steel
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- Dimensions Height 79.5in, Width 23.6in / 200000.00 kg
- Fit for outdoor? No, This artwork can not be displayed outdoor
- Categories Sculptures from $20,000 Conceptual Art
Seungwoo is famous for his sculptures made from coins and buttons. He creates hyper-realistic, life-size sculptures of human figures and spinning objects.
The Artist uses coins to build complex, surprisingly detailed, three-dimensional sculptures. Each sculpture consists of as few as hundreds of thousands of coins. Assembled in flowing, swirling patterns, the coins make up Kim's sculptured human forms almost seem to be alive and create fascinating effects.
Money has an unexplainable ability to attract and hypnotize the viewer, and Kim Seungwoo's spinning sculptures magnify the beauty of shining and sparkling coins.
Just like a wizard, Kim Seungwoo creates the sculptures that enchant the viewer. His work examines our relationship with money, while also taking advantage of the physical beauty of the coins. As the coins themselves are assembled with a lot of hard work, the sculpture itself becomes reminiscent of the phrase- ‘hard earned money’.
‘Art is Money, or Money is Art’, – questions Kim Seungwoo.
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Seungwoo Kim is a contemporary Korean sculptor. Seungwoo Kim is known for his coin sculptures. The artist considers coins as a material rather than a value, reflecting on the advantages and disadvantages of money and attempting to express social and cultural values in his work. Placing the coins, one by one, hundreds of thousands of coins, artist is creating complex, surprisingly detailed three-dimensional sculptures.
Seungwoo Kim was born in 1978, in South Korea, where he graduated from the Department of Sculpture in Chungnam National University and Arts Graduate School in Hongik University.
- Nationality: SOUTH KOREA
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
- Groups: Korean Contemporary Artists Artists presented by a gallery