Seoul-based artist Choi Xoo Ang is an artist who sculpts concrete bodies. And these bodies seem eerily and sometimes hideously real. His figures, made of oil on resin, use gestures that seem overstated to emphasize their existence revealing such megalomaniacal symptoms. Choi is known for using art as a way to grasp the world pathologically. From Vegetated State to Islet of Asperger, his sculptures vividly detail the excesses and individual as it relates to each figure. Choi takes everyday characters — such as the beggar, the wing of hands, the big nosed man or the gossip spreading rumors — and exaggerates, abbreviates, and modifies their actions exponentially to shed light on how an individual’s existence, deeds, and consciousness influence society and others.
I commend Choi for his acute sense of detail and realistic rendering, but this at times seem pessimistic in that aspects of our lives and times are shown only in pathological terms. Although his pieces do not present any strategies for healing, they have the power to make us look closely at our self and world at large.
Here are some of my favorites from his portfolio, including those from his solo exhibitions Islet of Asperger, Vegetative States, and Itching:
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