Lee Bul
After Bruno Taut (Beware the sweetness of things), 2007
Crystal, glass and acrylic beads on stainless steel armature, aluminum and copper mesh, PVC, steel and aluminum chains 258 x 200 x 250 cm.
Installation view: “On Every New Shadow” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris Collection: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris.
Courtesy: the artist and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris Photo: Patrick Gries.
Lee Bul: ‘From Me, Belongs to You Only’ – Mori Museum Lee Bul was born in South Korea in 1964 and has been considered one of Asia’ s leading artists since the 1990s, when her work was shown at numerous international venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Lyon Biennale and the Venice Biennale.
4 February through 27 May, 2012
]]>
Source: Mori Art Museum
Having set out on her career in the late 1980s, Lee’s maturation as an artist coincided with South Korea’sdevelopment in terms of democracy, modernization and economic strength. Lee tends to make reference to20th century utopian theory, literature and politics in her work, and often imbues it with elements of SouthKorea’ s modern history as well as her own personal history. In this way, Lee has questioned the nature ofhuman beings and their notions of ideal society with the aim of arriving at universal values.
This exhibition will include early performances using her own body, a series of works in which sculpture ispresented as an existence transcending the human body, and also recent works reminiscent of architectural orurban planning models. Through her practice, Lee has sought to transcend both the human body and societyas we know them, and this exhibition represents the first chance to get a full overview of that process. It willinclude around 45 works, several of which are new.
About the artist
Born 1964. Currently resides in Seoul. Majored in sculpture at Hongik University. Since the late 1990s, Lee hasreceived high acclaim around the world and established herself within the post-globalization international artscene as one of Asia’s leading artists. Lee has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York,1997), Le Consortium (Dijon, 2002), The Japan Foundation Forum (Tokyo, 2003), the Fondation Cartier pourl’art contemporain (Paris, 2007-08) and elsewhere. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions inNorth America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. In 1998, Lee was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize and she wasalso awarded a prize at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999.
Related content
Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashi – Mori Art Museum (exhibition, 2010)
Tsang Kin-Wah at the Mori Art Museum (exhibition, 2011)
Follow us on:
