René Descartes viewed as beautiful the order and coherency of structures designed by a single architect; the purpose of the ARCHISCULPTURE Photo Project, however, is to create architectural sculptures by collaging photographs of diverse architectures from various architects. Therefore, ARCHISCULPTURE is both similar and different to the organic romanticism of ancient cities built through the works of numerous architects, for they represent the artist’s subjective interpretation and selection regarding various architects’ numerous designs. If there is the ‘punctum’ in photography then clearly architectures used here will in a certain way be the artist’s ‘punctum’ and their assemblage will be the ARCHISCULPTURE. This work may also locate and bring together structures with political, economic, or social significance, so viewers may feel the illusion of a metropolis through the ‘studium’. Like collectors who arrange and classify their acquisitions with great care, the artist analyses selected city fragments gathered from here and there and creates sculptures with them. At this time, collaged architectures in the work are reborn as one beautiful sculpture retaining architectures’ diachronic or synchronic histories or encompassing all. As Russian film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein explained in relation to the montage technique, meanings that did not exist in each scene are newly created in the edited and interconnected whole. The collaging employed in the process of making ARCHISCULPTURE also creates new meanings that have not been read in individual architectures while combining multiple buildings. However, in any case, if we look at the work as it is, this work is a non-existent sculpture work with an architectural appearance, and the photograph that seems to have taken it is ARCHISCULPTURE.
ARCHISCULPTURE 019(Myoungdong, Seoul), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 70×100 or 120x171cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 020(Beomeo Temple, Busan), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 024(theatre), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, (70x49cm-edition of 150 or 100x70cm-edition of 150, only available on LUMAS.com) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), total edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 025(white), 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 46x32cm or 142x100cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 027, 2014. archival pigment print, (70x49cm-edition of 150 or 100x70cm_edition of 150, only available on LUMAS.com) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), total edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 028, 2014. archival pigment print, (70x49cm-edition of 150 or 100x70cm-edition of 150, only available on LUMAS.com) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), total edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 030(gates), 2014. archival pigment print, (70x49cm-edition of 150 or 100x70cm_edition of 150, only available on LUMAS.com) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), total edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 031, 2014, archival pigment print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 032, 2014. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 033(arch), 2014. archival pigment print, (46x32cm-edition of 300) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), Edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 034(Edinburgh,Scotland), 2015. archival pigment print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 035, 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 038(Red, Green, Blue), 2014. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 040, 2014, archival pigment print, 70×100 or 120x171cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 041(Cheongju, Korea), 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 042(museums in NYC), 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), (46x32cm-edition of 300) or (142x100cm-edition of 10), total edition size 310
ARCHISCULPTURE 043(museums in NYC), 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 044(Times Square in NYC), 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 045(Times Square in NYC), 2015. archival pigment print(black and white or colour), 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5