Yoo Young-ho ( ko, 유영호, born 1965) is a South Korean sculptor.
Career
He graduated in 1991 from the College of Fine Arts,
Seoul National University. Later he studied at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
in Germany.
One of his sculptures is located in Seoul's Digital City subsection. It is known as Square-M Communication, a piece of large-scale installation art that resembles a man looking at his own image on a screen. It is 7m in length, 6m in width, and 6m in height using blue-painted stainless steel, representing peace and neutrality. The sculpture is seen briefly in Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
He became famous with his ''
Greetingman ''Greetingman'' ( ko, 그리팅맨) is a modern sculpture project in South Korea.
Its main artist is Yoo Young-ho (South Korean sculptor). The concept provides a man, 6 meters high, bowing in a typically Asian greeting gesture. The blue color means ...
'' project,
consisting in huge blue-colored statues of a bowing person. One statue was installed in
Montevideo, Uruguay. Yoo's intention was to start the project at the farthest place from Korea.
Yoo's idea is to promote peace around the world with his artistic concept; one of his statues has been erected near the
Korean Demilitarized Zone
The Korean Demilitarized Zone ( Korean: ; Hanbando Bimujang Jidae) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the peninsula roughly in ...
, in Haean,
Yanggu County, Gangwon
Yanggu County (''Yanggu-gun'') is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea.
The northern part of Yanggu County was part of the front line for much of the Korean War, and now borders the Demilitarized Zone. Several Korean War battle sites are lo ...
,
which was the battleground of one of the fiercest battles of the
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...
.
Yoo plans to further erect 1000 statues in places like Vietnam, Berlin, and Palestine.
Awards
* 2004 Kim Sejung Sculpture Award for Young Sculptors
* 2005/2006 Residence Program, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
See also
*
Greetingman ''Greetingman'' ( ko, 그리팅맨) is a modern sculpture project in South Korea.
Its main artist is Yoo Young-ho (South Korean sculptor). The concept provides a man, 6 meters high, bowing in a typically Asian greeting gesture. The blue color means ...
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Profile
1965 births
People from Gangwon Province, South Korea
Seoul National University alumni
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
South Korean sculptors
Living people
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