Lee Ufan

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Hangeul 이우환
Hanja 李 禹 煥
Revised
Romanization 		I U-hwan
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Uhwan
Lee Ufan Relatum with four stones and four irons 1978

Lee Ufan (born June 24, 1936 in Haman-gun , Keishō-nandō , Chōsen Province , then the Japanese Empire , now South Korea ), also Yi U-hwan , is a painter and sculptor who focuses on Asian and Asian art in his minimalist art European roots.

Life

After beginning art studies at Seoul National University , Lee went to Japan in 1956 to Nihon University to study East Asian and European philosophy. In the 1960s he was a key figure in the Japanese artist group Mono-ha (Japanese 物 派 , for "group of things"). He advocated a strict course of de-westernization and turned in theory and practice against Western modernity, which determined the self-image of Japan after the Second World War.

The artists of the group named by other Mono-ha mainly used found natural materials. Things should speak for themselves. Art was not seen primarily as a creative act, but as a rearrangement of what was found, which thereby comes into relationship with the surrounding space.

At the 7th Paris Biennale in 1971, Lee Ufan was represented for the first time in Europe as the representative of South Korea. He traveled around Europe. 1971 marks the end of the mono-ha movement for Lee and forms an essential point of intersection in his work.

Lee has lived in Paris and Tokyo since the 1970s. In 1977 he was a participant in Documenta 6 in Kassel .

From 1973 to 1990 Lee was a professor at the Tama Art School in Tokyo.

In 1997 Lee became visiting professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris .

In 2010 the "Lee Ufan Museum" (Japanese 李 禹 煥 美術館 , Ri Ukan bijutsukan ) was opened on Naoshima , Japan.

With Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time , the Center Pompidou Metz is showing a retrospective of Lee Ufan's work over more than five decades.

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Lee Ufan's work is based on an intensive examination of East Asian and European philosophy. In Lee Ufan's works, approaches from US Minimal Art and Land Art encounter traditional Asian spatial and landscape concepts. He continuously accompanies his work in theoretical discussions.

“For him, it's not about realizing an art object, rather he uses art to make the surrounding silence and emptiness, 'the great shimmering cosmos' visible. 'Ultimately, by limiting the ego to a minimum, I want to increase the relationship to the world to a maximum. I am the one who brings about the correspondence, but the fact that the work gives you a feeling of infinity is due to the power of the empty space. I hope that my works appear to others as what they are to myself, semi-transparent things that always include the unknown. ' "

Most important series of works

  • Around 1970 start of the series Relatum , until today the title of all his sculptural works.
  • 1973 Beginning of the From Points and From Lines series
  • 1986 Beginning of the From Winds series
  • 1987 Beginning of the series With Winds
  • 1991 Start of the Correspondance series

Works in public space

  • Relatum with Four Stones and Four Irons (1978)
  • Relatum - Holzwege I (2000)
  • Relatum - Holzwege II (2000)
  • Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time (2019, Center Pompidou Metz )

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d - 이우환 (李 禹 煥) - . In: dbmedia.co.kr. Retrieved March 1, 2011 (Korean).
  2. ↑ Ashley Rawlings: An Introduction to 'Mono-ha' Tokyo Art Beat August 9, 2007
  3. ^ Exhibitions Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time , exhibition at the Center Pompidou Metz, February 27 to September 30, 2019
  4. ^ Lee Ufan Virtual Museum Modern NRW
  5. ↑ Press release for the exhibition Silence, 2006 kunstaspekte
  6. ↑ Relatum with Four Stones and Four Irons (1978) artibeau - art in Bochum
  7. ↑ relatum - Holzwege I (2000) artibeau - Art in Bochum
  8. ↑ Relatum - Holzwege II (2000) artibeau - Art in Bochum
  9. ^ Center Pompidou Metz
  10. ↑ Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Guggenheim Museum New York . Retrieved April 10, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guggenheim.org
  11. ↑ 광주 시립 미술관 하정웅 컬렉션 '이우환' 展 . JoongAng Ilbo from August 30, 2012 (Korean).

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, U-fan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Ufan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이우환 (Korean, Hangeul); 李 禹 煥 (Korean, Hanja); I, U-hwan (Revised Romanization); Yi, U-hwan (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Haman-gun , Keishō-nandō , Chōsen Province , then the Japanese Empire , now South Korea