This catalogue accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of the Korean painter & sculptor Lee Ufan in Germany. This monograph presents ample installation shots, as well as thorough scholarship on Ufan’s immense impact on the postwar art movements of Japan and Korea; how the artist’s philosophical writings shaped the collective Mono-ha (School of Things); and how his abstract paintings of the mid-1970s are emblematic of the Korean collective Dansaekhwa.
- 268 pages.
- 100 colour ills.
- 24.1 x 17.1 cm.
Meet Lee Ufan: Lee Ufan is considered one of the most important representatives of the Mono-ha school in Japan - a movement whose artists particularly focused for their work on the combination of raw materials such as stones, branches or earth with industrial materials such as steel or glass - and of the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea - in which Korean artists began to explore abstraction and materiality in the mid-1970s, especially through monochrome painting. Ufan has exhibited around 50 works from the last five decades at Berlin's most important museum space dedicated to contemporary art.
