Stunning paper installations by an artist from South Korea

Art is constantly looking for new forms to embody ideas. A Korean artist has found a way to express his creative fantasies using paper. His amazing compositions are miniature boxes assembled into huge installations. Painstaking work takes a lot of time, but the result is worth it.

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Artist Kwang Young Chun (Kwang Young Chun) folds miniature boxes, and then combines them into huge wall or floor installations. Each composition consists of thousands of individual packages of mulberry paper, colored with tea, pigment and letters that were originally printed on old paper material used for installations. The works, which Chun calls "aggregations", demonstrate color and relief gradations on textural surfaces.

Chun was inspired to create such complex designs by his own children's handwriting. He grew up a sickly child, and medicines at that time in Korea was packed in triangular boxes made of mulberry paper. The artist grew up in South Korea, lived in the 1960s in the USA and studied there at the Philadelphia College of Art. After graduation, he returned to his native country. On his website, Chun writes that he felt disoriented while studying in America because of the differences between the values in which he was brought up and the cultural ideals of the United States. He calls himself a Korean artist and started creating his amazing paper sculptures in 1995.

Painstaking work, an unusual creative method and the breathtaking beauty of huge paper installations distinguish the Korean artist among many others. He chose his own way of embodying the ideas of love for the Motherland and its values, telling other people about the high culture of his country with the help of original and unique compositions.