Lee Seung Jio
Nucleus 73-18, 1973
Oil on canvas
51 3/8 x 67 3/4 in
130.5 x 172 cm
Framed:
52 x 68 3/8 in
132 x 173.6 cm
130.5 x 172 cm
Framed:
52 x 68 3/8 in
132 x 173.6 cm
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...
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.
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, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1991.
ORIGIN: Suh Seung-Won, Choi Myoung-Young, Lee Seung Jio, curated by Park Seo-
Bo, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, France, 2016.
Lee Seung Jio: Advancing Columns, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea, 2020.
Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2020.
Literature
Lee Seung Jio: Advancing Columns (Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2020), 129.
