U-Ram Choe’s Futuristic Bio-Mechanical Sculptures

By Alex in Art, Pictures on Oct 17, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Korean artist U-Ram Choe who specialized in making wonderful, mechanical sculptures that look like futuristic biological organisms. Choe likes to incorporate scientific nomenclature into his artwork, and the art display reminds one of a prehistoric display at a natural history museum!

Here is Opertus Lunula Umbra (Hidden Shadow of Moon), as part of the Liverpool Biennial International 08 Exhibition:


Photo: Liverpool Biennial [Flickr]

Varietal Urbanus Female (2007), made from etched stainless steel, LED, circuit motors, CPU board, custom software and cable:


Photo: Ho Sing Yuan/Taichi Photography

Lumina Virgo (2005), made from metal, touch sensor, light bulb, and magnet:


Photo: Lee Seong-Gon

Check out more of U-Ram Choe’s artwork at his website: Link


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  1. Ali S.
    Oct 17th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Yup. That first one looks like the ribs of a giant extinct mammoth shrimp. Could you imagine putting that on a BBQ. Mmmm.

  2. Johnny Cat
    Oct 17th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    I can definitely imagine owning a BBQ that big, Ali.

  3. SenorMysterioso
    Oct 17th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    ty alex – more art posts please :)

  4. renderanything
    Oct 17th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Nice detail work. I’ll have to see how he made those. Must have access to a water jet cutter and more. Today I just completed a scrap metal dragon, I can imagine the large number of hours that had to go into each of those.

  5. su.wei
    Oct 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    wow. his stuff is beautiful.
    it was interesting to start at the beginning of his profile (1992) and see how far he has progressed :)

  7. Tempscire
    Oct 19th, 2008 at 4:16 am

    The first one (Opertus Lunula Umbra) disturbs me. A lot.

  9. Joe Nolan
    Sep 16th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    I wrote a review of Choe’s New Urban Species show in the Nashville Scene. I recently gussied it up a bit, added a number of videos of Choe’s pieces and re-posted it to my blog. An in-depth look at New Urban Species can be found here- http://www.joenolan.com/blog/?p=420


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