T-yong Chung’s sculpture is grounded in a sustained engagement with Western classicism, approached through the perspective of an elective outsider. Portraits and busts of historical figures—from Ancient Rome to Romanticism—are rendered in plaster, marble, concrete, or resin and incised with a hand-cut geometric line across the face: a gesture that disrupts formal continuity and introduces a quietly unsettling fracture into the canon. The artist’s dual cultural identity—South Korean by birth, Italian by adoption—shapes a gaze that studies the Italian tradition with both distance and admiration. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and lives and works in Milan.