Lee Ufan in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Korean Cultural Centre UK, 1-3 Strand, London

6 Feb 2018 - 6:00 PM

Lee Ufan in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Lee Ufan was in conversation with Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Korean Cultural Centre UK.

Lee Ufan (b. 1936 in Kyongnam, South Korea) came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the major theoretical and practical proponents of the avant-garde Mono-ha group. The first contemporary art movement in Japan to gain international recognition, Mono-ha (Object School) rejected Western notions of representation, focusing on the relationships between materials and perceptions rather than on expression or intervention. Ufan’s minimalist works using only two materials – steel and stone – are characteristic of this school of thought.

Lee Ufan's public sculpture, Relatum - Stage was installed outside the Serpentine Gallery from 6 February to 29 July 2018.

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Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan (born 1936, in Kyongnam, South Korea) is a painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher.

Ufan studied calligraphy, poetry and painting at the College of Kyongnam and the University of Seoul. He has been the subject of major shows at Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France (2017); Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2016); Palace of Versailles, France (2014); Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2011); Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, (2009); the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (2005); the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Rhône-Alpes, France (2005); the Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea (2003); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2001); the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (1997); and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (1994). He was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2001 and the UNESCO Prize in 2000. In 2010 the Lee Ufan Museum, designed by Tadao Ando, opened at Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan.