{"product_id":"17113-sung-soo-koo","title":"Sung Soo Koo","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=3\u003eSung Soo Koo (*1970 in Daegu, South Korea) became known through his series \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eMagical Reality,\u003c\/I\u003e which features candy-colored scenes from his Asian homeland: an advertiser‘s model of the Statue of Liberty on top of the roof of a hotel, or the plush interior of a wedding chapel. He contrasts this pseudo-American plastic world with delicate portraits of flowers from his \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003ePhotogenic Drawings,\u003c\/I\u003e which take up Asian tradition\u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e.\u003c\/I\u003e Some of the plants, many of them dug up complete with root system, are artfully arranged and photographed by the artist in a strictly formal manner between two glass plates. A second group is pressed into damp clay, and the resulting bas-reliefs are later cast in cement, creating a positive print, which he then paints in meticulous detail and photographs. What therefore looks natural at first glance actually turns out to have been subjected to the strictest control or has become an entirely artificial product.\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44873332392200,"sku":"9783775733496","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775733496_100b3839-b5ee-4eb7-b028-3396c2ab54b3.jpg?v=1744138160","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17113-sung-soo-koo","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}