Writings

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Review: Art Busan 2025, An art fair aspiring to become a platform — What was gained, and what was left behind?

Art Busan 2025 concluded its four-day run on May 11 at BEXCO in Haeundae, Busan. Now in its 14th edition, the fair brought together 109 galleries from 17 countries in an effort to reinforce Busan’s position as a hub of contemporary art in East Asia. However, the outcome reflected more of the current art market realities than a major shift.

2025.05.13

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Gwon Osang x G-Dragon: Sculpting the “Übermensch”

What does it mean to exist beyond the confines of identity? Gwon Osang, a pioneering figure in contemporary sculpture, dissects the visual lexicon of pop culture through his signature ‘photo-sculpture’ technique, fusing photography and three-dimensional form to interrogate notions of representation.

2025.03.04

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Artist Gwon Osang Redefines Sculpture Through Photography

Gwon Osang (b. 1974), known for his so-called "photo-sculptures," has continuously questioned the identity of sculpture while exploring new structural forms.

2024.12.17

Criticisms

Unbound Assemblage: The Sculptural “-ic” Movements of Kwon Osang and Haneyl Choi

The constraints of the system called the “contemporary,” which constantly demands renewal, are also applied to art, driving repeated transformations through frameworks such as expansion, deconstruction, recontextualization

2022.08.23

Criticisms

Two Diverging and Converging Paths of Sculpture History : Kwon Osang, Haneyl Choi, 《The Other Self》

To put it boldly, everything is “sculpture.” If sculpture is defined as a mass possessing form and materiality within three-dimensional space, then not only various artistic genres—such as painting, photography,

2022.08.23

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Gwon Osang’s Sculpture That Transcends Dimensions

Artist Gwon Osang’s Untitled GD will be on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London from September 24, 2022. The piece depicts G-Dragon, a member of the South Korean idol group Big Bang, as Saint Michael the Archangel, confronting the devil.

2022.08.04

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Three Leading Korean Contemporary Artists Who Began Their Careers in the 2000s

After Korea recovered from the 1997 currency crisis, the country’s contemporary art scene faced many changes in the 2000s. With a growing emphasis on the cultural economy, the government developed a number of cultural policies to support underrepresented artists. Several alternative spaces that fostered new movements in the Korean contemporary art landscape appeared, and the art market began to flourish alongside the emergence of new art fairs and auction houses.

2022.02.14

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Contemporary Art of Gwon Osang

In general, Osang Gwon’s oeuvre consists largely of Deodorant Type, The Flat, and The Sclupture series. Started in beginning of 1998, Deodorant Type is the oldest, most acclaimed of Gwon’s art practice.

2012.10.01

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More than Contemporary - On Gwon Osang's work

It's up to the audience how to read Gwon Osang's works. It's because his works are neutral in meaning and evaluation. He just devotes himself to his works with a serious attitude. And the result becomes a statement about human's visual perception,

2012.02.02

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The Manifold Destiny of Osang Gwon

Korean artist Osang Gwon skillfully straddles the mediums of photography and sculpture in a rich and complex signature style that seems to nod to Pop Art, traditional still life painting and portraiture through a most contemporary vocabulary that finds its roots in such far-flung philosophical underpinnings as the fractured bodies of world history, the sutured surfaces of Dadaist collage and the mise en scène fabrications of the stage.

2008.06.05