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Abraaj Capital Gifts Futuristic Mixed-Media Sculpture to DIFC's Permanent Art Collection.


'Una Lumino Portentum', a futuristic mixed-media work by South Korean artist U-Ram Choe U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, Korea.

U-Ram Choe's work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement.
 recently gifted by Abraaj Capital to the Dubai International Financial Centre's (DIFC DIFC Dubai International Financial Centre ) permanent art collection, is on display at DIFC. The stunning artwork, which can be viewed at the Marble Walk, the central retail area located within the basement of The Gate building incorporates stainless steel stainless steel: see steel.
stainless steel

Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat.
, motors, light-emitting diodes, acrylic casting, circuits, custom software and a CPU CPU
 in full central processing unit

Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit.
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Title Annotation:International Financial Centre
Publication:Albawaba.com
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Date:Nov 4, 2009
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