Chun Kwang Young is a Korean artist best known for his textural, crystalline paper sculptures. He uses tea and other natural dyes to color mulberry paper to give the impression that his sculptures are not manmade. Chun’s childhood recollections of seeing medicinal herbs wrapped, treated, and packaged influenced the development of his paper-working technique. His work explores themes of harmony and conflict, as with his famed Aggregation series of large-scale sculptures made of triangular parts created from discarded books. In his own words, the Korean artist is concerned with “expressing the power of our ancestors' spirit,” and reflecting on “a painful modern society." Born in 1944 in Hongchun, South Korea, he studied...