We may call sculpture made with industrial objects and junk "visually resurrecting art", for the industrial object obtains a kind of artistic life through the thought and design of the sculptor, and junk is used as the working material of the arist.
...
We may call sculpture made with industrial objects and junk "visually resurrecting art", for the industrial object obtains a kind of artistic life through the thought and design of the sculptor, and junk is used as the working material of the arist.
Historically, at the beginning of the 20th century, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism had presented many examples of Object art. Since 1960, Nouveau-Real-ism and Neo-Dada have activated the use of industrial junk.
With this background and tradition of object art, I have tried, in my sculptures, to represent environments, social conditions, and my Christian faith. There are four categories of tendency in my works from 1978 to 1992 as fllows:
1) a description of visual contrast or harmony between civilization and nature.
2) a visual trace of demonstration and resistance against the prevalent injustice and inequality in the socio-political sphere.
3) a visual embodiment of Christianity with symbol and world view.
4) an attempt towards the integration of the above three categories.
The latest integrative works especially invlove the transforming vision on culture based upon the reformed Christian world view. With this transforming vison, my negative and resistant views on the civilized environments and social structure in my former works could probably be changed into a positive and reformative view revealed in my recent works.