Occupation Sculptor McCune–Reischauer Yu Yong-Ho Revised Romanization Yu Yeong-Ho | Hangul 유영호 Years active 1991 - present Name Yoo Young-ho | |
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Born 1965 Gangwon | ||
South Korean gift has Vietnam officials scratching their heads
Yoo Young-ho (Korean: 유영호, born 1965) is a South Korean sculptor.
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Career
He graduated in 1991 from the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University. Later he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany.
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, consisting in huge blue-colored statues of a bowing person. One statue was installed in Montevideo, Uruguay. Yoo's intention was to start the project at the farthest place from Korea.
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, which was the battleground of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War. Yoo plans to further erect 1000 statues in places like Vietnam, Berlin, and Palestine.