Lee Ufan
About the Artist
Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Kyongnam, Korea) emerged as one of the founders and major proponents of the avant-garde Mono-ha ("School of Things") group in the late 1960s. Mono-ha was Japan’s first internationally recognized contemporary art movement, rejecting Western notions of representation and emphasizing materials and perception and interrelationships between space and matter.
Lee creates his sculptural works using only two materials: steel and stone. In 1970, the artist explained that “[t]he highest level of expression is not to create something from nothing, but rather to nudge something that already exists so that the world shows up more vividly.” In 2014, Lee presented a major solo exhibition at the prestigious Chateau de Versailles in France. Lee joined the gallery in 2007.
Works in our Collection
Lee Ufan
Untitled
1984
Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated lower right
56.2 x 95.6cm
Lee Ufan
Untitled
1987
Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated lower right
56.2 x 74.6cm
Lee Ufan
Dialogue
2010
Watercolour
75 x 57cm
Lee Ufan
Correspondance
2002
Oil on canvas
53 x 65.2cm
Lee Ufan
With Winds (+Catalogue Raisonne printed in 1993) Centre Series 1
1993
Pigment suspended in glue on canvas wash on paper
Original
50 x 40cm