Yoo Young-ho
Born1965
Gangwon
OccupationSculptor
Years active1991–present
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationYu Yeong-Ho
McCune–ReischauerYu Yŏng-Ho

Yoo Young-ho (Korean: 유영호, born 1965[1]) 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 in Germany.[2]

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 project,[2] consisting in huge blue-colored statues of a bowing person.[3] One statue was installed in Montevideo, Uruguay.[4] Yoo's intention was to start the project at the farthest place from Korea.[5]

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, in Haean, Yanggu County, Gangwon,[6] which was the battleground of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War.[5] Yoo plans to further erect 1000 statues in places like Vietnam, Berlin, and Palestine.[6][7]

Awards

  • 2004 Kim Sejung Sculpture Award for Young Sculptors
  • 2005/2006 Residence Program, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

See also

References

  1. ↑ 유영호 (in Korean). Akive.org. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 "One thousand greetings". The Hankyoreh. 8 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Greetingman" (in Korean). Joins.com. 30 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "A polemical statue" (in Spanish). LiCCom.edu.uy. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Korean-designed Uruguay statue reproduced in Yanggu". The Korea Herald. 24 October 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Greeting Man statue coming to Korean War battleground". The Hankyoreh. 25 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "1000 statues around the world" (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 24 October 2013.


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