AUCTION - 2022.10.12
[Highlight] LEE U-fan | From Notch | OCTOBER 2022 Modern and Contemporary Art
Highlight from the "54th SBI Art Auction｜Modern and Contemporary Art" sales on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2022.
In August 1972, Lee Ufan held his first solo exhibition in Korea at Myungdong Gallery in Seoul. At the same show, he presented various experimental works, including oil paintings depicting electric cords, light bulbs, and the light; a series of works entitled Cut Up, in which he chisels and carves wooden panels. The former deals with an optical illusion in which trickery and reality intersect, while the latter emphasizes materiality. In the "11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art in Retrospect," held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in May 1973, he showed two Limiting Elements (original title Cut Up). The Cut Up series was introduced in Seoul in 1972 and Tokyo in 1973, showing that Lee was then returning from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
The works comprised of wooden panels, each carved with countless chisel marks, amount to records of a repeated physical process with subtle variations. These gestural traces essentially encompass a cyclical, universal sense of time and infinity, manifested through the dialogue between the artist's consciousness and the external materials. The same underlying elements are present in Lee's paintings from the same period.
In later years, Lee Ufan would thoroughly pursue an aesthetic of "non-intervention" by presenting his sculptures and paintings in a casually simple manner with fewer gestures. However, various attempts were made to reach such an emphasis. This work allows the viewer to enjoy a "physical act" rarely seen today.
Lot.222 LEE U-fan
1971
From Notch
Wood
102.4 × 89.0 × 2.5 cm (40⅜ × 35 × 1 in.)
Provenance:
KOH Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
JPY 15,000,000 - 25,000,000
USD 107,100 - 178,600
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[Lots. 001-148] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 5:00 PM (JST)
[Lots. 149-309] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 5:00 PM (JST)
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In August 1972, Lee Ufan held his first solo exhibition in Korea at Myungdong Gallery in Seoul. At the same show, he presented various experimental works, including oil paintings depicting electric cords, light bulbs, and the light; a series of works entitled Cut Up, in which he chisels and carves wooden panels. The former deals with an optical illusion in which trickery and reality intersect, while the latter emphasizes materiality. In the "11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art in Retrospect," held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in May 1973, he showed two Limiting Elements (original title Cut Up). The Cut Up series was introduced in Seoul in 1972 and Tokyo in 1973, showing that Lee was then returning from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
The works comprised of wooden panels, each carved with countless chisel marks, amount to records of a repeated physical process with subtle variations. These gestural traces essentially encompass a cyclical, universal sense of time and infinity, manifested through the dialogue between the artist's consciousness and the external materials. The same underlying elements are present in Lee's paintings from the same period.
In later years, Lee Ufan would thoroughly pursue an aesthetic of "non-intervention" by presenting his sculptures and paintings in a casually simple manner with fewer gestures. However, various attempts were made to reach such an emphasis. This work allows the viewer to enjoy a "physical act" rarely seen today.
Lot.222 LEE U-fan
1971
From Notch
Wood
102.4 × 89.0 × 2.5 cm (40⅜ × 35 × 1 in.)
Provenance:
KOH Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
JPY 15,000,000 - 25,000,000
USD 107,100 - 178,600
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Bid Submission Deadline:
[Lots. 001-148] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 5:00 PM (JST)
[Lots. 149-309] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 5:00 PM (JST)
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