Recently, I watched a movie called Things to Come starring Isabelle Huppert as a middle-aged philosophy teacher. The narrative addresses the issue of how to let go of some things in life and how to face the future in a serious and dignified manner. If we compare the finite quality of life to a physical or a metaphorical journey, it seems we are always moving forward towards something, even if we turn around. Ultimately no one knows where their life's journey leads and what it means, and depending on their personality, some people are taking steps cautiously, while others are reckless.
The metaphorical similarity between life and the idea of a journey is not a coincidence but a necessity for humans. In the dictionary, ¡°Ô³ (Tao)¡± means the ¡°road¡± of life as well as the essential lifestyle needed to maintain the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of human beings. Even though the term originally meant ¡°the path of life,¡± it is also recognized as an important set of values to be followed, which will provide spiritual sustenance to people who want to pursue truth on life¡¯s journey. Thinking is bound to dominate people's actions and therefore both rumination and action must be understood as interlinked concepts of inseparable duality. This is the idea of ¡°Ô³¡±; to confirm one¡¯s belief in life sometimes through thought and other times through action.
Lee Seung-Hee is an artist who engages with the sense of touch to reflect on the past and calmly welcome the future. To him, ¡°Ô³¡± is a discovery and realization that only can be obtained at a point where human being can't exist or think apart from the earth around them. One acquaintance referred to him as ¡°a person who learns from the road (Ô³) and lives on the road (Ô³).¡± In this regard, it is significant that the title of his work is TAO, which means both ¡°Ô¶¡± (pottery) and ¡°Ô³¡± (road), concepts that cannot be separated from his life. People are captivated when presented with his ceramic relief technique first hand, as Lee¡¯s work, that was created through his endless repeated movements of piling up very thin layers, can only be sensed by the fingertips. His art is representative of the entire process of work and life for an artist who endures each day with only faith in the unpredictable results that will follow his actions. Conversations with Lee Seung-Hee always end without a conclusion. In this respect, I often struggle to understand if he is talking about everyday life or his artistic practice, or what is right and what is wrong, as for him such dichotomies are irrelevant.
Lee¡¯s working style is as follows: Using traditional ceramic techniques, he makes a square plate of white clay, to which he applies soil, water, and then dries. This process he repeats more than 100 times over the next three months. Through this technique Lee creates a thick layer of about 8mm on the clay plate. Next, scraping it to a thickness of merely a few particles, Lee forms the clay to create a three-dimensional effect through its curved surface, a process through which he reveals the boundary between the background and the image. After painting the image of the ceramic vessel on this clay tile with a pigment, he then applies a glaze over the image to reproduce the form of a classical ceramic vessel pictorially, while the rest of the tile he leaves unglazed to preserve the texture of the clay base. Therefore, only the pottery part naturally stands out, creating a contrast between the untreated background and the center image. Although it is impossible to materially separate the unglazed background from the central representation of pottery, the difference in texture is clear. If you look closely, the pottery image and background in the work are all flat, but from a distance, it looks like three-dimensional ceramic vessel floating in a white space.
One can truly appreciate his work only when understanding the passion and energy poured into all this tedious process, such as sifting through the clay, carefully scraping away the dust-high grain, picking lines and sides, painting, glazing, and waiting in front of a kiln heated to over thousands of degrees. This new art discourse he coins ¡°ceramic painting,¡± and this term becomes meaningful through this patient process of the work itself. ¡°My work is a kind of relief, neither just ceramics nor just paintings. I wanted to create unique modern art by combining the two,¡± Lee said. He aims to express his inner echo through his works and achieve an artistic ideal that can appeal not only to traditional East Asian artistic sensibilities but also to global ideas of beauty. His invention of the ¡°ceramic painting,¡± as a pottery object that can be hung on a wall, emphasizes visual artistry in deference to the three-dimensional tradition of ceramic work which maintains a partial emphasis on functionality. His innovative approach is indicative of the artist's challenging spirit and pioneering desire to break away from stereotypes.
Going back to the aforementioned movie, the audience, unfortunately, has no idea what changes the Things to Come, will bring into our lives in the future. We are all on the road (Ô³), but what are we going to leave behind, and what are we going to welcome into our lives? Certainly we could say that the chill winter wind is already causing the leaves to fall. The process of Lee Seung-Hee¡¯s continued accumulation of clay in his work is similar to the process of training for the Ô³, and directly related to the meaning of life he pursues. For him, the going and coming of life, must be a continuous process that exists only as an extension of time without separation. Just as Lee Seung-Hee extols through his work, every life on the road only meets the upcoming ¡°things¡± that will be encountered relative to their own philosophical meditation on life and existence, an attitude formed over a lifetime.
Born in 1958 in Cheongju, Lee Seung-Hee majored in ceramic art at Cheongju University. The Clayzen series, which was released consecutively in Beijing in 2008 and 2009, drew great attention both at home and abroad as it presented a new paradigm for ceramic art. Since 2010, he has held individual and group exhibitions at major art galleries in Korea and abroad with his TAO series. These include exhibitions at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Milan Triennial, Belarus Biennale, Bernardo Foundation, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, and Cheongju Museum of Art. Since 2008, Lee has developed his practice within the local artworld of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, the world's largest mecca of ceramic art, here he conducts his creative experiments informed by his constant meetings and workshops with ceramic artists around the world.
Painting of Seungtaik Jang which spans more than 30 years converges on one theme, which is to realize an exceptional and distinctive materiality the rectangular plane allows. His use of plexiglas and industrial paint instead of oil paint and canvas well illustrates the radical and definite direction and attitude he chose. These new materials place his two-dimensional work in a realm that cannot be easily classified nor explained, and deepen the presence of pictorial objects by making the materiality of his work converge toward a more minimalistic and immediate plane. His work not only shows the perfection of the plane, but also fulfills conceptual completion as well as technical integrity. A work of art is a cross section of a thoroughly individual world and a segmented interpretation. When we look at a work of art, we instantly realize the fact that it coincides with a form of thoroughly specific thinking. Nevertheless, the specificity of painting makes up the essential structure of the work, which only reveals itself minutely or with proportional scarcity. It is the vestige of paints minutely overlapped at the edges that reveals the pictorial quality in 'Layered Painting', the latest series of Jang. Even though we are not sure whether it is intentional, only those who gaze at it are able to notice that the pictorial materiality is connected to an explosive emotion in such a minimized realm.
In his historical 1965 essay, ¡°Specific Objects,¡± Donald Judd defined painting as a three-dimensional object placed as a rectangle and a flat plane within a three-dimensional space. Instead of depending on the similarity to the world represented in it, painting is rather a distinctive object cut off as a part of the larger, unspecific world, and he emphasizes ¡°the thing as a whole, its quality as a whole is what is interesting.¡± The reason the world of each pictorial work is interesting is because of the shape and extraordinariness of the large and unspecific ¡®world¡¯ it belongs to. In this regard, Judd thinks the world of sculptors like his is in line with those of Rothko, Newman, Noland, and Stella. This idea places painting on a totally new horizon, by providing a clear perspective on the turn of paradigm that replaces oil painting and canvas with industrial paints and panels. As we know, what happened next was that the materiality of the plane takes the central place in our gaze.
There is another theme in the discussion of Judd to which we need to pay attention. That concerns an individual language that reveals the ¡®world.¡¯ When we talk about the painting as a flat object, we should discuss what cross section of the world it is, and how it is segmented from the world. To take an example, the painting of Rothko is not only a mass of cloud-like colors right at the center of a space surrounded by a rectangle, but also a cross section or segmented part of a universe, which can be infinitely extended through ¡®its¡¯ quality. Life and death, the subject and the object converge into the same quality in the world, and that convergence is called ¡®abstraction.¡¯ Its function is to condense the world in a concise and instant words, or to invent a kind of metonymic language.
We find several qualities that imply such condensation in Jang¡¯s work. The first one is ¡®overlapping.¡¯ His works consist of clear and translucent planes that are overlapped or accumulated. In 'Layered Painting', the overlapping of brush strokes in different colors inevitably leads to a black plane. The traces of brush strokes, which had been made repeatedly and innumerably to create this deep, dark plane still remain at the edge. That is, we can find the surplus of painting that minutely reveals its physical structure at the edge of the non-material plane that takes up the greater part of the canvas.
The second quality of the condensation is his pictorial rhetoric, which can be summed up as such that ¡°the essence of a painting exists in its vestige.¡± In other words, the essence of the darkness that covers the entire canvas is the vestige of the layers that accidentally present themselves at the edge of the painting. The essence of an object is the remnant left behind by the object, unknowingly and unconsciously pushed out of the range of gaze, and pushed aside to the edge. The visual rhetoric translated into words becomes the most powerful momentum driving his work.
The third is the concluded materiality of the canvas as ¡®a specific object.¡¯ The canvas as a special object is a crucial topic in painting and its way of existence is as universal as the gravity of the earth. Therefore, the point of our discussion is not why the canvas becomes the basic structure of painting. Instead, we need to recognize that this rectangular plane is directly connected to our existence. The question about the canvas is to question about our existence. Dealing with this question, Seungtaik Jang posits the object of painting as a thoroughly individual and completed object. To gaze at the object means to look at an existence that radiates a specific existential quality as well as its surface.
'Layered Painting' series lies at the culminating point in the artist¡¯s long painting career. The topic of the work, the black, which has become as dark as an abyss through overlapping of countless brush strokes and acrylic paints with 20~30% opacity, looks like an equivalent of the universe that is itself full of life. The universe consists of overlapping of present moment that is constantly changing. If we compare the entire universe rolling from the infinite past to the present, each present moment corresponds to each individual scene from an infinitely long roll of film. The Universe is composed of infinitely overlapped present universes that are infinitely being segmented. The second law of thermodynamics says time does not exist in the physical reality. Time is a phenomenon that is recognized by the existence ruled by the irreversible principle of thermodynamics like humans. Perception, memory, and intuition of time take the form of overlapping. That is the most basic condition to constitute the ontological and epistemological characteristic of human being. Perception of time constructs the form of nowness that makes up a vast boundary between what has passed, what is to come, and what is in between. The act of perception is vast and vain. Connecting and aligning several flat brushes, Jang draws them in acrylic paint mixed with medium and makes a translucent membrane. Then he repeats the same act with a different color. Each brush stroke amounts to each individual present. The pictorial act of the artist in 'Layered Painting' constitutes a form of reaction to the way the world and time exist as humans perceive.
Jang¡¯s work has not been fully appreciated in spite of its inherent completeness, stylistic originality and significance within the context of contemporary painting. His artistic world reminds us of the continuity of the Informel or abstract expressionist painting and at the same time implies a methodology of minimalism and conceptualism in terms of a new interpretation of painting through industrial media. The overlapping of layers or construction of immeasurably transparent or reflexive canvas in fact entails controversial issues regarding the structural qualities of painting. What we see is a self-perfecting and relational work calling for internal elements that penetrate the whole theory of painting at the same time. Through disproportional rhetoric, it creates a new type of visual narrative that operates like an index to the world, or symbol or sign. It is certain that Jang¡¯s work constitutes a totally important momentum in contemporary painting of Korea. We¡¯ll eventually understand that.
An integral member of Seoul 80, the flagship avant-gardist collective of the Korean contemporary-art scene circa 1980, Lee Inhyeon is the embodiment of the artist as intellectual. Lee¡¯s first solo show in three years featured a dozen new works from the ongoing series he¡¯s been working on since 1993, all with the Foucauldian title L¡¯épistémè of Painting.
A prototypical work by Lee is a color-field painting that sets dark Prussian blue against the natural beige of unprimed canvas. The brown/ blue monochrome tradition in Korea has been the emblem of serious and respected scholar-painters since the era of ink paintings. Artists of the prior generation, such as Lee Ufan and Yun Hyong-Keun, often indulged in the subtlety of tonal variations within a single hue; their works were regarded as spiritual and noble owing to their solemn outlook. While Lee¡¯s paintings are at the edge of such conventions of sublimity, they abound in devices showing him to be critical of any strictly modernist construction.
Characteristically, all of Lee¡¯s works are mounted on thick stretchers, about four inches in depth; thus, the paintings stand out against the wall, taking on the forceful presence of Minimalist objects. Just as Frank Stella made reference to the thickness of stretcher bars in his paintings and Jo Baer saw creative potential on the sides of her canvases, Lee is extremely sensitive to this depth of painting that completes its three-dimensionality. While coloring the front of the canvas in uniform Prussian blue, he creates gradations on its sides from deep to light blue, by letting the thinned paint gradually seep into the raw canvas. The view from the sides of Lee¡¯s paintings simulates the visualization of the cross section of a painting, alluding to the accumulated layers of painting¡¯s episteme. This pictorial emphasis on the volumetric axis of canvas calls attention to the painting¡¯s status as an object.
Critical of the enlarged role of brushstrokes in expressionistic paintings as well as their role in imagemaking and thus illusion, Lee minimizes the use of the brush in executing his paintings. Instead he uses paint-soaked cloth to wet the unprimed stretched canvas, letting the paint seep through the surface. To take this method further, he has used one painting to make another: tilting an edge of a still-drying painting like a squeegee, he presses it against the surface of an unprimed canvas and drags it along, leaving a streak of pigment on the new surface. The concept of making one painting with another approaches pure, self-referential metapainting.
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1980 Seoul National University, College of Fine Art(B. F. A.)
1986 Tokyo National University, College of Fine Art(M. F. A.)
1992 Tokyo National University, College of Fine Art(D. F. A.)
1992¡Prof. Hansung University, Painting Dept.
2015 L'épistémè of Painting – sky watcher, Gahoedong60, Seoul, Korea
2012 L'épistémè of Painting – Refurbished, GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003 Gallery Roh, Seoul, Korea
2002 KUKJE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 L'épistémè of Painting – 4D Perspective part 2, sai gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 L'épistémè of Painting – 4D Perspective, IHN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994 GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 RYU International Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 L'épistémè of Painting – Paintings Seen from the Side, GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Gallery MIYABI, Fukuoka, Japan
1992 SPACE 11, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Fine Art․KUNOKI, Kagoshima, Japan
1990 HASHIMOTO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Fine Art․KUNOKI, Kagoshima, Japan
1990 Museum of Tokyo National University, College of Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
1986 print on paper – untitled trompe-l¡¯oeil, KOBAYASHI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 TONO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Gallery PTNA, Tokyo, Japan
2022 'Fall into Silence', LEE & BAE, Busan, korea
2021 When Kiwon Park Met Inhyeon Lee, Cha studio, Incheon, Korea
2021 Colours of the imagination, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021 All our stories are incomplete..., Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Three-Body Problem, Gallery Miru, Seoul, Korea
2018 THE BLUE, Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Rhythm in Monochrome - Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Questioning Sustainability, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2015 from Trace to Artwork, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2015 Korea's monochrome and antique, Bexco, Pusan, Korea
2014 Celadon & Contemporary Painting, KyungWoon Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 Over No Limit, gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
2014 Love Minus Zero, gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
2013 Gwangju Art-Vision, Exhibition Halls of Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2013 Dam-hua, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2013 Colour & Sensibility, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
2012 Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
2011 ASIAN International Art Exhibition, Seoul Art Center, Seoul/Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
2011 Abstract it!, National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010-12 Everything is Repeated, Kosa Space, JH Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Instinctively, gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
2008 Colour & Space, Mokkumto Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 Korean-Chinese Contemporary Art, Seongnam Art Center Museum, Seongnam, Korea
2007 Hommage 100, Korea Art Center, Pusan, Korea
2007 percept-scape/concept-scape, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea
2006 Daehangno - Mentor and Protege, Mokkeumto Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Small is Beautiful, Seongnam Art Center Museum, Seongnam, Korea
2005 Hallo Gutenberg!!, Raphael 12, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 Echo beyond Time: the Traditional and the Modern, Seoul, Korea
2005 Cool & Warm, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2004 from NORTH, Hankeesook Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2004 Korean Contemporary Paintings: Past & Now, Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003 21C Korean Contemporary Art-Expectating Horizon, Gallery Sun, Seoul, Korea
2003 the 18th Asian International Art Exhibition, Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
2002 After the Grid, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
2002 About Abstraction, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 The Prospects & Expectations of Korean Contemporary Art, Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2002 International Contemporary Print Arts Exhibition, SungSan Art Hall, Changwon, Gallery SongHa, Pusan, Korea
2002 Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 the 17th Asian International Art Exhibition, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2001 Korean Art 2001 ; The Reinstatement of Painting, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea / GuangDong Art Museum, Guangzou, China
2001 the 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, GuangDong Art Museum, Guangzou, China
2001 Park Hong-chun․Lee Inhyeon, Gallery SAGAN, Seoul, Korea
2000 ABSTRACT, Gallery SAGAN, Seoul, Korea
2000 Autumn Aroma, Gallery helloart¤ýcom, Seoul, Korea
2000 the 14th Korea Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
2000 2000 Gwanju Biennale, Gwangju Municipal Museum, Gwangju, Korea
2000 No or Bad Signals!, Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 Trace, C. A. I. S. Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 Beauty & Order, Ro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Meeting with time & space - Painting with 3 dimensions value, YEH Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul, Korea
1999 Beyond Landscape, ArtSonje Museum, Kyungju, Seoul, Korea
1999 Thus Flows Time, SPACE 11, Tokyo, Japan
1999 SEOUL80-SWEET LIPS, C. A. I. S. Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 frame, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1998 CROSS-POINT, Yemac Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 the 13th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Korea
1998 Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 landscape ¡ª water, Gallery Sang, Seoul, Korea
1998 Version, C. A. I. S. Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Contemporary Korean Printings ¥±, Gallery Samsung Plaza, Bundang, Korea
1998 defrost, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungju, Korea
1998 Brushed : Non-brushed, sai gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Prospect of Contemporary Print, Gallery Doll, Seoul, Korea
1997 small world ¡ª large self, Gallery Jo, Seoul, Korea
1997 the 12th Asian International Art Exhibition, Centro de Actividades Turisticas, Macau, Hong Kong
1997 Five Artists-Five Colors, Gallery 21, Seoul, Gwangju, Korea
1997 Thus Flows Time, SPACE 11, Tokyo, Japan
1997 '97 Seoul Print Art Fair, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1997 DOTS, KeumHo Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1996 the 11th Asian International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
1996 Ecole de Séoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 Sea ¡ª the Origin of Beauty, Gallery S, Seoul, Korea
1996 The Heuristic Horizon, MORAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 inter-TEXTUALITY, KASHIWAGI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Behind the Surface, KUKJE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995-97 ABSTRACT, 63 Gallery, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1995 Printmaking Tomorrow, INSA Gallery, Gallery Sabina, Seoul, Korea
1995 SEOUL80-TEXTUALITY, SPEED, GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 '95 Seoul Art Fair, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1995 Aphorism, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
1994, 96 Seoul International Print Biennale, IL MIN Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
1994, 95, 98 Seoul Art Exhibition, Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul, Korea
1994 SEOUL80-ABOUT WATER, Gallery Shilla, Taegu, Korea
1994 Art Session '94 Asahikawa, Asahikawa Museum, Hokkaido, Korea
1994 Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1993-99 Logos & Pathos Exhibition, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 SMALL IMAGE, GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 PEACE-111 Artists, Galerie BHAK, Seoul, Korea
1993 Exposition/Out-Position, Hongin Gallery, Daejon, Korea
1993 Expression/4 Artists, GAAIN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 SEOUL80-TEN YEARS AFTER, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1992 The Present of HANGA, Gallery IKEDABIJUTSU, Tokyo, Japan
1992 PROOF 1992, Gallery IKEDABIJUTSU, Tokyo, Japan
1988 NEW WAVE OF JAPAN, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Tokyo, Japan
1987 The SEIBU Triennial Extibition of Prints, Seibu Musrum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1985 College Students' Printmaking Show, Purchase Certificate, MARUNOUCHI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Nichido Prints Biennale, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan
1984 Ethics of Expression, Cozy Space, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Three Korean Artists in L. A., Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A
1983 36 Printmakers Show, Total Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1982 Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1982 Commonsense, Sensitivity or Symptom, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1982 Artist Today, Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1982 SEOUL80-PRINTS ON SALE, SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1982 Exhibition of Drawings & Prints by Korean Artists, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 SEOUL80-OBJECTHOOD, SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 Ecole de Séoul, Myoungdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 SEOUL80-WORK BY SCREEN, Dongdeok Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 Salon de Jeune PEINTRE/EXPRESSION, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1981 SEOUL80-REPORT ON MASTER'S, SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1980 36-3 Art Studio Display¥°,¥±, 36-3 Studio, Seoul, Korea
1980 SPACE International Prints Biennale, Award of Excellence, SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1980 SEOUL80-WORK WITH PHOTO, SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1979-80 INDEPENDENTS Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
the 1st SPACE International Prints Biennale, Award of Excellence
the 10th Seoul International Print Biennale, Grand Prix
Seunghee Lee
1958 born in Cheongju, Korea
1986 Bachelor of art, majored in craft, Cheongju University
2021 TAO, Park Ryusook Gallery, Jeju, Korea
2020 TAO, Park Ryusook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 TAO, LEE & BAE, Busan, Korea
2017 TAO: Between Dimensions, Park Ryusook Gallery, Korea
2016 From Clayzen to Tao, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2016 TAO, Park Ryusook Gallery, Korea
2015 Object beyond Object, Force Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 Nada out of Nada, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2013 Beyond Expectation, Park Ryusook gallery, Korea
2013 Path, Wally Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
2013 TAO, Shin Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Who Are You (ý§ä²êó), Artside, Korea
2010 CLAYZEN, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, Korean Craft Museum,Cheonju, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, UM Gallery, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, ARTSIDE Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 CLAYZEN, Musim Gallery, Korea
2005 Sound Put in Bowl, Musim Gallery, Korea
2001 Media Future Language, Daejeon Strip Culture Center, Korea
2000 50 People Community Solo Exhibition, Cheogju Art Hall, Korea
2022 'Fall into Silence', LEE & BAE, Busan, korea
2021 Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2020 SOFA Chicago Online Viewing Room
2020 Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2019 Abu Dhabi Art, U.A.E
2018 Korea Galleries Art Fair
2018, Coex, Seoul, Korea
2017 From, in, to Jingdezhen; Eight Experiences, ClayarchGimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea
2017 Rethinking Craft, SeMA Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Reduction of Sense, Ozasa Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Contemporary Korean Ceramics, V&A Museum, London, UK
2016 International Biennale ofVallauris
2016, Vallauris, France
2016 CCC. CéramiqueContemporaineCoréenne, FondationBernardaud, Limoges, France
2016 Not Two, Space MOM, Cheongju, Korea
2016 Lee And Lee: Empathy Zone, Daecheongho Museum of Art, Korea
2015 Familiar Otherness, HongKong Art Centre, HongKong
2015 Put souls in Joseon White Porcelain – GuBonchang and Lee Seunghee, Choi Sunu House, Seoul, Korea
2015 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, The Old Cheongju Tobacco Processing Plant, Cheongju, Korea
2015 START-This is Tomorrow, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2015 Constancy& Change in Korean Traditional Crafts, Milano Triennale Museum, Italy
2014 Transcription of typical museums, Daecheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2014 White Porcelain Admiration, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seungtaik Jang
1959 Born in Pochun, Korea
1986 B.F.A, Hongik University, Seoul
1989 License, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Paris
2021 gallery yeh, Seoul, Korea
2019 Layer Color painting, Song Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Layer Color painting, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2016 Date gallery, Busan, Korea
2013 P&C Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2012 Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2010 Gallery Date, Busan, Koaea
2008 Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2003 Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2002 Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 Gallery Ihn, Seoul, Korea
1999 Korea Art Gallery, Busan, Korea
1998 Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
1998 C.A.I.S Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 Park Ryu-sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 Gallery Ci-Gong, Daegu, Korea
1995 Hak-chun Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1995 Gallery Area, Paris, France
1993 Gallery Seomi, Seoul Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
1993 Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1990 Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989 Korean Art Center, Paris, France
1989 Albert Chanot Art center, Clama, France
2022 'Fall into Silence', LEE & BAE, Busan, korea
2021 KIAF, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2020 The Galleries Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2020 Transcending Colors, LEE&BAE, Busan, Korea
2020 Art Busan, Viewing Room, Korea
2019 KIAF, Viewing Room, Korea
2019 KIAF, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2019 Art Busan. BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2018 And never said a word, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2018 The post Danseakhwa of Korea, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul/ Daegu, Korea
2017 Under the skin, Artbit Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 KIAF/ Solo project, Seoul, Korea
2015 Context Art Miami, Miami, USA
2015 KIAF, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2014 Empty Fullness : Materiality and Spirituality in Contemporary Korean Art, SPSI, Shanghai, China
2014 Draw the Painting, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Color, Il Woo Space, Seoul, Korea
2012 Dansaekhwa- Korean Monochrnting, National Museum of Contemporary art
2012 Korea, Koreaome Pai, Vietnam
2011 Chinese, Korean and Japanese Modern Art Exhibition, Gallery 4 face space,
Beijing, China
2011 Captive Space, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2011 Dup, the meme, BIBI Space, Daejeon, Korea
2010 Temperate Aestetics, Tong-In Auction gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Drawing through process, Atelier 705, Seoul, Korea
2010 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2010 Seoul International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2010 In Side Out, Bongsan Cultural Center/ Seok Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2010 Korea Gallery Art Fairs 2010, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2009 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2009 Painted painting, Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2008 Brushed, non-brushed after 10 years, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2008 Seoul International Art Fair, KOEX, Seou
2007 color.Surface.Spirit, Gallery Topohous, Seoul, Korea
2006 Sharing the Passion, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
2006 Quadrangle's colors, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
2006 Light &Mind, Shin Museum of Art, Chungju, Korea
2005 Korea International Art Fair, KOEX, Seoul, Korea
2005 Pochon Contemporary Art Festival, Pochon, Korea
2005 Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Art center, Seoul, Korea
2005 Soamu Paris/Seoul, Korean Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2005 Korean Contemporary Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
2004 Monochrom Painting of Korea, Past and Present, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2004 Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004 Gi-jun Art Festival, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Suwon, Korea
2003 The Plastic, Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2002 Understanding Abstract Art, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 La difference et la coexistence, Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
2001 Korean Art 2001, The Reinstatement of Painting, National Museum of
2001 Contemporary Art, Korea
2001 3 Artists, Maechyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2001 Art &Space, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Gwang-ju Biennale 2000,Special Exhibition ; The facet of Korea and Japanese
2000 Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea
2000 Le Plastique, Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
2000 The New Millenium, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Window Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Doh &Jang, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
2000 Beyond the canvas, Gallery Ihn, Seoul, Korea
2000 Painting &Sculpture, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1999 Meeting with Time and Space; three Dimentional Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
1998 Media and Painting, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 98' Seoul Art Fair, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 San Francisco International Art Fair, USA
1998 '98 Art Chicago, USA
1998 Art as Theraphy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 Chungdam Art Fair, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Version 1, C.A.I.S Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Five Freinds of Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
1998 Brushed, Non-Brushed, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 Three Artists, Hakchun Gallery, Chungju, Korea
1997 Special Exhibition Japan Indepandants, DongKyungdo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Ecole de Seoul, gallery Kwanhoon, Seoul, Korea
1996 Place to Space, Gallery Gaain, Seoul, Korea
1996 Courant d'Art, Deauville, France
1996 '94 Daegu Work Shop, Gallery Cigong, Daegu, Korea
1993 Small is Beautiful, Woong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 Sonamu Atelier, Korean Art Center, Paris, France
1993 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
1993 Salon de Bagneaux, France
1992 Work on paper, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1992 Gallery Guthac-Balin, Paris, France
1991 Three Artists Drawing, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1991 Maison des Beaux Arts Gallery, Paris, France
1989 Korean Contemporary Painting, Foundation Vasarery, Aix-en-Provence, France