Lee Sangsoo

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About the artwork

This four-legged bird is inspired by Lee’s fascination for a child's whimsy. However, it is the imaginative abstract approach to this sculpture that gives life to its comical existence. Simplistically, one can see the one-dimensional eye is like a child's first step to interpret the realistic depiction of a bird. But it is the whimsical approach meant to evoke a comical presence.

About the artist

Lee Sang Soo (born 1983) is a South Korean artist. He studied sculpture at Dong-A University College of Arts in Busan, and obtained his Masters degree at Hongik University Graduate School of Sculpture in Seoul, South Korea. 
Fascinated with innovation and new technologies, Lee Sang Soo questions our relation to nature in a hyperconnected world. 
His works appear extremely dynamic, an impression he achieves through an intricate use of positive and negative space in three dimensions. His animals, minimal in form, but extremely lively in colour, are represented only through clean, twisting lines. Through a subjective perspective, Lee Sangsoo grasps and captures deceptively simple morphological traits, making his figures immediately recognizable.
Cats, dogs, pigs, roosters, deer, flamingos and swans dialogue with the surrounding space and create very evocative, elegant, dynamic, and coloristic effects.
 “Lines, planes, and colours are important elements in my sculptural practice. The lines drawn in my two-dimensional sketchbook determine the large flow and form of the work, and the sculpture becomes three-dimensional only in the three-dimensional space. On paper, the square lines are shown in various shapes and colours according to their flow and twist within the sculpture, and even in the still work can the motion be felt. The lines are rhythmically thickened or thinned according to the flow.” Lee Sang Soo