Sculptor "Gwon Osang"

Korean sculptor Gwon Osang creates sculptures from hundreds of photographs of the original subjects, overlaying them onto lightweight life-sized mannequins. Gwon's quilted photo-sculptures are made by photographing different sections of the model's anatomy. Osang, who graduated from the Hong-ik University sculpture department, has become one of the most recognised contemporary artists in Korea for his non-conventional approach to sculpture which includes models such as the band Keane who chose him to create eye-catching artwork to promote their album Perfect Symmetry.

Each band member took between 1,000 and 3,000 photographs to create, and while the photo shoot took five days with the band, the actual sculptures took around six weeks to produce. He says: "For me photography was not very interesting. Not to say photography as a genre wasn't interesting, but the people in that field, the photographers were not interesting. This is my personal opinion but I think they are different from sculptors" His inspiration for the 3D photo sculpture series, titled Deodorant Type, was entirely practical. He says: "As an art student I often used heavy materials like stone, bronze and wood. I would often need to move my piece but it would be too heavy so I decided to make something lightweight" and developed a motto: never make anything that a friend and I can't easily move" Gwon Osang is based in Korea and represented by Arario Gallery, Korea. TheTamshee says: these photo-mache sculptures are certainly impressive. The music also has some appeal.