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World Tempus

You would be hard pressed to find a brand that interprets the art of telling time quite like MB&F. Led by Maximilian Büsser, the independent watch brand is one of the leading voices in the industry for exciting and mind-bending […]

The Daily Telegraph

Visitors view Meditation 1554, a sculpture by contemporary Korean artist Seo Young-Deok, which is on display in Grosvenor Square in London as part of the inaugural Mayfair Sculpture Trail being held throughout October […]

Mayfair Art Weekend

Young-Deok’s meticulous manipulation of the iron chains exposes their monotonous and repetitive nature. Each iron piece is welded together to become a part of the dynamic system of organic connectivity exhibited through his human forms. While the material […]

The Young Londoner

Bond Street’s Opera Gallery will present three outstanding sculptures by Manolo Valdés, Anthony James and Seo Young-Deok this October as part of the Mayfair Sculpture Trail. Mayfair Sculpture Trail offers an exciting opportunity for families to enjoy art on the streets of Mayfair […]

Hongkiat

Where there is an idea, there is a way to express it – at least when it comes to art. Artists can come in many forms […]

Architectural Digest India

Korean artist Young Deok Seo’s human body sculptures reveal his in-depth understanding of the human anatomy. His highly expressive sculptures have the power to communicate purely through their construct and form […]

Prestige Singapore

South Korean artist Seo Young-Deok’s collection of contemporary sculptures made from welded chain come alive at Geneva’s MB&F M.A.D. Gallery. The LINK exhibition, which runs until September […]

Prestige hong Kong

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, goes the old adage. Most people would look at a dirty metal chain and see common trash. But it takes a visionary like the very talented Korean sculptor Young-Deok Seo to perceive the many facets of the human condition in such an ordinary object […]

Esquire Middle East

Super high-end watch brand expands its Mechanical Art Devices brand with new pieces by Korean artist - The five impressive sculptures use everyday metals in imaginative ways for masculine art […]

Elite Living Africa

Encapsulating human emotion through his meticulous use of metal chain, Korean artist Young-Deok Seo’s LINK collection has touched down in Geneva for an exhibition in MB&F’s weird and wonderful M.A.D (Mechanical Art Devices) Gallery […]

M.A.D. Gallery

The M.A.D. Gallery introduces the LINK exhibition by Young-Deok Seo, a passionate Korean artist using intriguing sculptures to reveal the complexities of the human character. Through a meticulous and laborious process of welding chain to shape human figures, Young-Deok has created an impressive […]

Creative Boom

South Korean artist Seo Young-Deok has made a name for himself crafting large-scale hyper-realistic sculptures of the human body from bicycle chains. His artworks deliver epic narrations of humanity and modernity where stories are only inferred by the mere expressions of their bodies rather than […]

Architectural Digest India

View to a Room - The entrance lobby features chairs that are Gio Ponti reproductions and a metallic sculpture by Seo Young-Deok […]

Visual Atelier 8

Seo Young Deok is an artist from Korea well known for his wire sculptures. His creations are human bodies carefully made from metal chains. These figures are of different dimensions and seem to carry live stories of real people. Most of the time they have […]

Artdaily

This spring, Opera Gallery presents Urban Renewal, a social commentary on the evolution of urban culture. Inspired by global initiatives to ‘Recycle, Renew, and Reinvest’ in the city, the contemporary group exhibition showcases four international new media artists: Seo Young-Deok, Nick Gentry, Yves Krief and Olivier Dassault […]

GAFENCU MEN

Renewed Art - Art met social conscience this March with the opening of a month-long exhibition at the Opera Gallery in Central. Forging human effigies from discarded chains, portraits out of floppy disks and amazing photo montages, the Urban Renewal theme was provoked by a global responsibility to “renew, recycle, and reinvest.” The opening night on 8 March brought together four notable artists: Seo Young-Deok, Nick Gentry, Yves Krief and Olivier Dassault.

Tatler Hong Kong

The gallery hosts a dynamic group exhibition focusing on the evolution of urban culture - Beginning March 6 at Opera Gallery, the exhibition titled Urban Renewal will bring together four contemporary new media artists for a social commentary on the evolution of culture in our modern world […]

My Modern Met

Korean sculptor Young-Deok Seo has crafted several new chain link sculptures - two for his Anguish series of a man in despair and one of a peaceful […]

colossal

Korean sculptor Young-Deok Seo has been busy since first appearing here back in 2011. The artist has continued working almost exclusively with welded chains reclaimed from bicycles […]

Designboom

korean artist seo young deok has expanded his opus of bicycle chain artworks with ‘meditation V’, the form of a human face emerging from a sculpted surface […]

FAD Magazine

Korean artist Seo Young Deok has been producing bicycle chain sculptures for years. using miles of metal chains. The material is carefully welded to mimic the organic curves […]

CNN

Güney Koreli sanatçı Seo Young Deok’un metal zincirlerden yaptığı üç boyutlu heykelleri SODA'da. Eserlerinde, toplumdaki çeşitli malzemelerin yarattığı hastalıklı kirlenmeyi yansıtan sanatçı, bu kirlenmenin modern zaman insanında […]

Artizen Magazine

Seo Young Deok: An Interview by Michael Helander of Blue Velvet Chair […]

Chita

Центром своего творчества профессиональный скульптор из Южной Кореи Со Ёнг Док (Seo Young Deok) избрал то, что вдохновляет многие поколения творческих людей с античных времён – обнажённое человеческое тело […]

Arch2o

How many of you bikers have ever worn out a chain and had to get a new one. I know I have. And what I now see was my mistake, is that I threw out the old chain […]

The Sun

These sculptures are off the chain - Talented artist Seo Young Deok put together this huge sculpture using more than a mile of old bicycle chains. The 7ft 6in head took over a year to build […]

Complex

Korean artist Seo Young Deok's 'Dystopia' exhibition at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul, which ran from October 26 until October 31, showcased Deok's work focusing on stories […]

Inhabitat

Seo Young Deok’s Larger-Than-Life Nude Sculptures Are Upcycled From Thousands of Bike Chains - Deok is particularly interested to portray the modern human’s plight in the context of industrialization. His larger-than-life nude sculptures, painstakingly welded out of used chains, portray sometimes broken, often people, using a material that exemplifies […]

Yatzer

The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok’s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. His solo exhibition ‘Dystopia’ took place at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul […]

Contour Magazine

Seo Young Deok is a South Korean sculptor whose works are created by welding together thousands of tiny metal chain links. His massive, solemn figures are meticulously put together, and yet convey a sense of fleetingness—the solemn, fragmented faces and torsos seemingly at risk of dissolving back into the tangled ether from which they came […]

Daily Art Muse

Young-Deok Seo: The Chains that Bind Us - Young-Deok Seo makes a statement about the repetitive, monotonous, machine-like way we often walk through life. Using chains, the Seoul-based artist welds figurative sculptures that are purposefully unfinished as a way to express […]