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The sculptural work of Korean artist Dongwook Lee is disturbing yet curious on multiple levels. Lee most often sculpts the nude human body. However, it's executed with a certain grotesqueness and on a small scale. The sculptures' diminutive size encourages viewers to look at the bodies as things or objects, as if they were insects. However, this stands in contrast to a natural empathy we have with the human form we share that lends the art a distressing atmosphere. Lee's work identifies and exploits a general uneasiness many have with the physical body, the carnal, and the fleshly - a hyper-awareness of the body and its delicate nature.

I like art that makes the person viewing it think about it on a deeper level. I also really dig self expression that makes a statement about the world we live in without being obvious. The sculptures of Dongwook Lee are many things, but overall they are disturbing and thought-provoking. Have a look at this […]