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CHOE U-RAM
(B. 1970)
Echo Navigo (Adult)
metal, machinery, acrylic, synthetic resins, fishing thread, electronic device (CPU board, motor) sculpture
245 x 65 x 63 cm. (96 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 24 7/8 in.)
edition of 5
Executed 2005-2006
Provenance
Private Collection, Asia
Exhibited
New York, USA, bitforms Gallery, New Active Sculpture, 30 November 2006-30 January 2007 (different edition exhibited).

Lot Essay

Echo Navigo (Adult) Scientific Name: Anmorome Istiophorus platypterus Uram Anmorome: An- animal, mo-motor, ro- rotation, me- metal Istiophorus platypterus: Pacific sailfish.

" The Echo Navigo lives nearby huge antenna in the city, and eats all sorts of electric waves. Therefore, these electronic-beings have a pinna to fly around through the flow over the electric waves. During the daytime they could make their body transparent, so that it is not easy to see them.

These beings were found by the engineer from the telephone department, who was trying to find a factor of the echo sound during the call that happens when the Echo Navigo fly around the antenna so fast and reverberate the electric waves. Once the larvae of the Echo Navigo has been found nearby the wireless telephone antenna."


-Quoted from the artist's website

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