Fruit Tree, 2014-2018, Installation view at The Giant Air, Paris, 2015, Courtesy of P21
Choi Jeong Hwa (b. 1961), one of Korea's best-known artists, has built his unique oeuvres on everyday materials and themes that we can encounter in everyday life. Fruit Tree is an artificial cornucopia bountiful with fake, colorful fruits of disproportionate sizes bursting out of one tree. This inflatable sculpture seems playful, yet make strong comments on the dichotomous relationships of what is real and synthetic, natural and artificial, landscape and urban.