Xooang choi biography of williams
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Xooang choi biography of williams
Xooang Choi: surrealist hyper-realism
Korean artist Xooang Choi received BFA in , and MFA in in Sculpture, from the Seoul National University.
Distinguished for their hyper-realistic technique of portraying human bodies and their powerful metaphors contained therein, Choi’s sculptures portray facets of human relations in contemporary society exploring ontological questions about human existence and identity.
His works are hyper-realistic and surrealist at the same times: physical distortions or exaggerations are rendered with the most delicate and realistic way, expressing psychological anxiety and fragility.
My sculpture might be seen as hyper-realism in terms of technique, however, what I express through it, is not reality itself.
I distort or exaggerate reality in order to express a certain phenomenon or status.
Emotions are manifested through deformed and imperfect bodies. If one feels uncomfortable physica