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Seung-taek Lee

Seung-taek Lee

25 May – 30 June 2018

Dates

25 May – 30 June 2018

Location

White Cube Mason’s Yard

25 – 26 Mason's Yard
London SW1Y 6BU

Curated by Katharine Kostyál

As one of the first generation of South Korean artists to embrace radical experimentation in art, Lee has been at the forefront of the Korean avant-garde since the 1960s. Although formally trained as a sculptor, Lee is best known for his practice of negation, which he has alternatively conceptualised as ‘non-sculpture’, ‘non-material’ or ‘anti-concept’. As an acute response to and reaction against rapidly transforming conditions in South Korea - from its emergence as a divided nation following three decades of Japanese colonialisation (1910-45) and the Korean War (1950-53), to its development into a modernised, global nation - Lee’s work has persistently unsettled established forms of contemporary Korean art. Yet his locally-specific experiments, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, invite comparison with other contemporaneous movements such as Land Art, Art Povera and Post-Minimalism.

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