Gwon Osang

A statement of 220 pieces. C-prints, mixed media. 130x70x30 cm. 2001

On the languishment of 340 pieces (Detail). C-prints, mixed media. 200x65x30 cm. 2000

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On the languishment of 340 pieces (Detail). 2000

Tender. 130x90x70 cm. 2002

Korean sculptor GWON OSANG creates his unvverving life-size portrait figures from nothing more that a series of photos and some polystyrene.

Photographic sculpture or sculptural photography, GWON OSANG most likely invented it. He begins a project by taking several hundred photographs of his model from every angle. He pastes the resulting skin onot a carved boday shape and calls the results Deodorant Types, because the postures of his figures are often taken from ads.