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Learn more about Youngdeok Seo (Korean, )..
Young-Deok Seo grew up in Seoul, Korea, and dreamt of becoming an artist from a very young age. Fulfilling his aspiration, he graduated from the Department of Environmental Sculpture at the University of Seoul in 2011 and then started a little underground workshop.
There his artistic career quickly began growing; he presented nine solo and countless group exhibitions highlighting his realistic human sculptures around the world, from Milan and Paris to Istanbul and New York.
What makes Young-Deok’s work unique is that instead of carving statues from one material, he creates sculptures by fusing hundreds of tiny components together.
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Bicycle chains are used to construct his striking figurative artwork. Using this unorthodox material, he renders each subject head-to-toe in the metal links.
“The chains in my work mean [restraints],” he says. “The fetters are all about our contemporaries’ complicated, forced relationships and cravings for materials.”
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