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Artworks
Lee Seung Jio
Nucleus 73-18, 1973Oil on canvas51 3/8 x 67 3/4 in
130.5 x 172 cm
Framed:
52 x 68 3/8 in
132 x 173.6 cmLee Seung-Jio (1941-1990) made his debut as an artist in 1964 when the Origin Group was established. The Origin was an organization consisting of Western-style painters who graduated from Hongik...Lee Seung-Jio (1941-1990) made his debut as an artist in 1964 when the Origin Group was established. The Origin was an organization consisting of Western-style painters who graduated from Hongik University in 1964. The struggle to overcome abstract expressionism culminated in the joint exhibition of young painters in 1967, and it was through this that Lee revealed his distinctiveness.
Three groups - Mudongin, Origin and Sinjeondongin - participated in this exhibition. While artists of Mudongin and Shinjeondongin submitted many works with strong tendency of Neo-Dada or Nouveau Réalisme, painters of the Origin had a unified mood with geometric abstraction.
Even in the unified geometric tendency of the Origin, Lee's method distinguished itself from others as he tended toward optical art, escaping the flat structure that was the geometric tendency of the time.Provenance
The artist's estateExhibitions
Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA, 2020
Lee Seung Jio: Advancing Columns, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea, 2020
Origin: Suh Seung-Won, Choi Myoung-Young, Lee Seung-Jio, Group Exhibition curated by Park Seo-Bo, Perrotin, Paris, France, 2016
Lee Seung Jio, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1991Literature
Lee Seung Jio: Advancing Columns (Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2020), 129.
Oh, Kwang-su. Lee Seung-Jio: 1968-1990, with essays by Lee Yil, Yoon Woo-Hak, and Kim Bok-young. Edited by Chung Joon-mo. Translated by Jeannie Park. Seoul:Total Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. p. 56.
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