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Expositions en cours

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Through various exhibitions, including not only Lee Ungno and Calligraphic Abstraction in Europe and Modernization of East-Asia Paintings: Sign and Objet but also 2017 Lee Ungno Museum Collections and Lee Ungno: The Epic of Abstraction, the Lee Ungno Museum has strived to show diverse aspects of Lee Ungno’s artwork in terms of structure/format, medium, and materials. As many already know, Lee left behind a broad range of creations that cannot be limited to a single format. Over the years, the Lee Ungno Museum has introduced viewers to artworks that form part of the flow of world art history.

 

By examining his completed works, we have sought to better understand Lee’s artistic world. This exhibition, on the other hand, is comprised of drawings and sketches by Lee, in an attempt to shed light on his artistic process. These works give us real insight into the thought process that Lee followed in pursuing his work as well as the temporality that lies within. As such, these drawings are an important asset of the museum, as they allow us to better understand Lee’s art. The Lee Ungno Museum has drawn from the massive collection of Lee’s drawings and archival material that it has systematically collected and organized over the years, with most of the drawings featured in this exhibition being revealed to the public for the first time. Through this exhibition, we aim to expand on the concept of “the drawing,” which has been commonly understood as an unfinished work of art (compared to completed paintings/sculptures), and learn to view them as independent and complex entities.

 

The drawing has largely broken free from the traditional concept of the “underdrawing” in the contemporary art community, taking on a new, modern definitionthat is, a combination of repetitive hand movements and thoughts. Under this modern definition, the drawing has become an artistic genre of its own. Drawing is both a passive act (an extension of the artist’s ability to portray subjects) and an active one (a tool that gives shape to the artist’s thoughts): it is a dual entity, a combination of the physical and the mental. Lee’s surviving drawings are as diverse in format as his completed artworks: this is also true of the works displayed in this exhibition, which include highly detailed drawings created for training purposes and abstract drawings that Lee made to expand his cognitive range.

 

This exhibition includes sketches, dessin (artistic drawings), “line drawings,” and esquisses (first model of a statue/sculpture). Because the year of production is not clearly indicated on many of the drawings, meaning that they cannot be classified temporally, they are instead grouped by content (landscapes and traditional objects (dining tables, flower vases, etc.), drawings/sketches made for sculptures, and abstract letter and “crowd” drawings). Through this exhibition, viewers will have the opportunity to see the world from Lee’s perspective as well as enjoy artworks that have never before been put on public display. The exhibition shows what it was that Lee hoped to depict in his visualizations of the Eastern psyche, a process to which he dedicated his life, through his experiences in Japan and France. It is also an exploration of Lee’s thinking in relation to the nature of the drawing.

 


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LEEUNGNO MUSEUM


#157, Dunsan-daero, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 35204, South Korea / Tel : 042) 611-9800 / Fax : 042) 611-9819

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