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David Zink Yi
Oktopus (Octopus)
David Zink Yi, who was born in Lima, Peru, but works in Berlin, has an extremely wide-ranging practice incorporating film, photography, sculpture, performance, ceramics, and – as here – small scale bronze sculpture. He is fascinated by octopi, which are among the world’s smartest animals and have a distributed form of intelligence, which seems to permeate their elastic bodies. Zink Yi creates fragmentary portraits of these underwater creatures, signifying their status as elusive and alien, distant from us yet deeply compelling.
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Artist
David Zink Yi
Material
Neusilber, edition 3/6 + 3 AP
Contributing Gallery
Hauser & Wirth
Date
2011
Dimensions
3.875 in × 16.875 in × 10.25 in
9.8425 cm × 42.8625 cm × 26.035 cm
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Image credit: Photography by Thomas Müller
Oktopus (Octopus), 2011
3.875 in × 16.875 in × 10.25 in
Neusilber, edition 3/6 + 3 AP
Hauser & Wirth
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David Zink Yi, who was born in Lima, Peru, but works in Berlin, has an extremely wide-ranging practice incorporating film, photography, sculpture, performance, ceramics, and – as here – small scale bronze sculpture. He is fascinated by octopi, which are among the world’s smartest animals and have a distributed form of intelligence, which seems to permeate their elastic bodies. Zink Yi creates fragmentary portraits of these underwater creatures, signifying their status as elusive and alien, distant from us yet deeply compelling.