She has been called a symbol of a new globalised generation. In Korea, SEO is regarded as an almost official representative of the country and as one of the world-class artists Korea has given birth to. SEO was born Soo-Kyoung Seo in the South Korean city of Gwangju, 330 km to the south of the capital Seoul, in 1977. Enraptured, some of her countrymen see her as a Cinderella in BerlinA". This praise is not least due to the renowned art collections that have works by the 32-year-old artist in their possession and have brought her much initial renown, including New York's Judith Rothschild Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art. SEO has had a fairytale career. She moved to Berlin in 2001 to study with Georg Baselitz, where, through her art as well as worldly, non-artistic adventures, she investigated the rites of everyday German life on the lookout for the peculiar and surprising. SEO now proclaims self-confidently, I am a German artistA". SEO unites Asian and European elements in her pieces.
She makes use of an exceptional artistic process to create her works: Thousands of paper strips are affixed to the canvas - collage-like - painted, pasted over and then painted again to compose fascinating pictures with an extraordinary structure and depth that "illustrate the essence of things and not the immediately apparentA".
- ISBN13 9783791343686
- Publish Date 16 February 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 December 2011
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Prestel
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English