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karma

source: alexiptoto

Το Κάρμα, είναι ένα περίεργο άγαλμα δημιουργός του οποίου είναι ο Κορεάτικης καταγωγής Do Ho Suh. Όπως θα διαπιστώσετε και οι ίδιοι, το δημιούργημα του αποτελείται από αμέτρητους άντρες καθισμένοι ο ένας στους όμως του άλλου. Το άγαλμα αυτό παριστάνει μία ανθρώπινη σκάλα προς τον ουρανό.
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source: likecool

Karma is an amazing steel statue by Korean sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh. The statue presents countless men sitting atop one another while shielding each other’s eyes. The statue ascends into the sky like a human ladder. The design makes one question whether the idea behind it is to present the figure of a man blindly following in the path of his ancestors before him, who have risen a step closer to the heavens with each new successor in the lineage.
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source: pbsorg

Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. After earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, and fulfilling his term of mandatory service in the South Korean military, Suh relocated to the United States to continue his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. In several of the artist’s floor sculptures, viewers are encouraged to walk on surfaces composed of thousands of miniature human figures. In “Some/One,” the floor of the gallery is blanketed with polished military dog tags. Evocative of the way an individual soldier is part of a larger troop or military body, these dog tags swell to form a hollow, ghost-like suit of armor at the center of the room. Whether addressing the dynamic of personal space versus public space, or exploring the fine line between strength in numbers and homogeneity, Suh’s sculptures continually question the identity of the individual in today’s increasingly transnational, global society. Do-Ho Suh represented Korea at the 2001 Venice Biennale. A retrospective of the artist’s work was held jointly at Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2002. Major exhibitions of Suh’s work have also been held at Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (2001); Serpentine Gallery, London (2002); and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2002–03).