U-ram Choe

Choe U -ram (born 1970 ) is a South Korean artist. He lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.

Life

Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied at the Chun- Ang University in Seoul and acquired in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and in 1999 a Master of Fine Arts. His first solo exhibition was called " Civilization host " and opened in the Seoul Gallery Boda 1998. The first international exhibition was called " New Active Sculpture" and began in 2006 in the New York Bitforms Gallery. In the same year Choe Young Artist Today Award, Fine Arts Part and the POSCO Steel Art Award, Grand Prize received. Another award won Choe 2009, Kim Se - choong Sculpture Award, "Young Sculptor Part".

Work

As a contemporary artist Choe creates kinetic sculptures. His working method involves the analysis of movement in nature. The design of the sculpture aims to mimic the presentation of nature. The sculptures thus conform programmed, mechanical creatures that move in a natural. In them Choe combines physical laws with the principles of aesthetics. He gives them names that are borrowed from nature or the material used. Like a living creature exists for each object a past. This creates Choe a cosmos of his own imagination. Against this background, the sculptures will receive a liveliness and thus alter limits of existing bodies. They enable a new classification of the relationships between interior and exterior, subject and environment as well as machine and organism.