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  • YongHo Ji (Born 1978) is active/lives in Asia, South Korea.
  • Yong Ho Ji: 2 exhibitions from Oct 2008 - Jan 2009, exhibition venues worldwide of artist Yong Ho Ji, Exhibition History, Summary of artist-info.com records.
  • Korean artist yong ho ji has expanded his 'mutant mythos' series, continuing to create sculptures with layers of used tire strips bound together.

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     - Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla

    Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo - CAAC G Oct 2008 - Jan 2009 Sevilla (3) +0Weibel, Peter (Curator)   +0Rhee, Wonil (Curator)   +0Brayer, Marie-Ange (Curator)   +0

    Biacs3 - youniverse / Cordoba (2/3) - 'Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla'

    Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo - CAAC, Spain

    Sevilla, Spain

    Ai Ran Kang; Charles Sandison (1969); David Link; Ki-bong Rhee (1957); Mahmoud Khaled; Mohammed Kazem (1969); Osvaldo Romberg (1938 - 2019); Paul Notzold; Ruth Schnell (1956); Kang Shao; SunMyoung Choi; Yong Ho Ji;

    Peter Weibel; Wonil Rhee; Marie-Ange Brayer;

    Biacs3 - youniverse / Granada (3/3)

     - Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevil

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    Ji Yong-Ho (B. 1978), Lion 2. Photo Sotheby's

    stainless steel and used tyres, 390 by 122 by 190cm.; 153 ½ by 48 by 74 ¾ in. 
     
    Executed in 2008, this work is unique.

    NOTE: Ji Yong-Ho was born in 1978 and studied in his native Korea and the New York University. He has exhibited his startlingly original sculpture all over the world and has garnered a strong reputation for his work. The present work, Lion 2 , is a powerful example of his unique vision. The raw intensity of the animal's form is enhanced by his use of rubber tyres. This recycled medium lends an alien power and vivifies the abnormal form of the Lion. The tyres' richly textured with its furrows and abrasions, help define the slick muscle groups that harness to the steel core to emanate a ferocious tension.

    However, the sculpture's not an exercise purely in imaginative fiction, Ji Yong-Ho also explores the questionable scientific advances of the modern era, in particular the field of genetic modifica

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    Undercurrent of humanity in sculptures made of tires

    Ji Yong-ho sits in front of his “Shark 10” sculpture made of used tires, which fryst vatten one of the art works displayed at “Korean Eye: Fantastic Ordinary” at Seoul Museum of Art’s Gyeonghui Palace Annex. The show has been moved to Korea Foundation Cultural Center, where it will run until Nov. 30. Provided bygd the artist


    Black beasts were in överflöd at the “Korean Eye: Fantastic Ordinary” exhibition, which came to Seoul Museum of Art’s Gyeonghui Palace Annex early this month, after being shown at London’s Saatchi Gallery and Singapore’s Arts House earlier this year.

    There was a frighteningly intense energy coming from the svans of the shark hanging from the ceiling in the main gallery, and from the condensed muscles of the jaguar about to jump up nearby. Surprisingly, the beasts are made of used tires.

    These striking sculptures are by Ji Yong-ho, 32, one of the 12 artists participating in the Korean Eye 2010 exhibit. Korean Eye