With Winds, 1983
Oil, stone pigment on canvas
Oil, stone pigment on canvas
Relatum – a rest, 2005
Stone, iron
(Article from Koreana by Jung Hyung-mo)
The artworks of Lee Ufan (Yi U-hwan), a prominent Korean artist who has been active mostly in Japan and Europe, are being featured in a large-scale retrospective exhibition, “Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity,” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (June 24-September 28, 2011). The exhibition features 90 of his drawings, paintings, and sculptural works from the early 1960s through today.
“For me, artwork should make the viewers sense a higher, more distant, and larger world than they can see. It should open up a space and initiate viewers to experience a bigger world beyond their sight.”
He is an important artist and philosopher. His artworks and writings are unequaled in Minimalist and Post-Minimalist art. Being active mostly in Japan and Europe, he has hardly been introduced in the United States. The exhibition is overdue,” said Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, who organized the retrospective. Four years in the making, the monumental event brings the works of a truly remarkable Korean-born artist to North American audiences for the first time. This kind of enthusiasm makes it clear why the Guggenheim chose to feature Lee Ufan’s artworks.
Lee Ufan website.
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