BHAK

Lee, Ufan

Critique

"Painting is not merely reproducing ready thoughts on a canvas, it is engagement with the concern to create encounters.""The world is larger than myself and is and obscure thing. My tendency has been constantly to change places with the other when faced with this indistinct other. My works are that place where I meet and relate with the other.""I think that the attempt to embrace the outside without appropriations its strangeness, through the artist's strict self-limitation, is based on an idea of coexistence which is not circumscribed by modernity.""When [This] self moves into space, it transforms one of the corners of the square or rectangle of its periphery into the site of a new center, around which new extremities are established, and so forth, until space is conquered."

About Artist
Born in Korea (1936)
Graduated from Nihon University, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo (1961)


Solo Exhibition
1997	Galerie Bhak / Gallery hyundai, Seoul
	Galerie Natione du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1996	Lisson Gallery, London
	Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1995	St?dtisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
	Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
	Galerie m., Bochum, Germany
1994	Fondazione Mudime, Milano, Italy
	The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
	Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1993	The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
1992	Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1991	Lorenzelli Arte, Milano, Italy
	Hara Museum ARC, Japan
1990	Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1989	Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
	Galerie m., Bochum, Germany
1988	The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan
	Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin
	Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
1986	Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1984	Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
	Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
1978	Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs
1996	Japon 1970:Mono-ha, Mus?e d'Art Moderne St. Etiene, France
	Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
	Small Truth, John Hantherd Gallery, Southamptons, England
	Made in France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1995	Asiana, Venice, Italy
	Joong-ang Biennial, Ho-Am Gallery, Seoul
1994	Japanese Art after 1945, Scream against the Ski,
	Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
	Japanese Contemporary Art, Guggenheim's Soho Museum, New York, U.S.A.
1992	Contemporary Art from Korea, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
1990	Blau, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberge, Germany
1989	Croisement de Signes, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
1988	Monoha, Museo Labatorio di Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
1986	Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1986-7)
1984	Wiesbadener Skulpturentage, Germany
1982	Meister der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nurnberg
	Material Gets Art, Berlin National Galerie, Berlin
1980	Skulptor im 20 Jahrhundert, Basel
1977	Kassel Documenta 6, Germany
1973	Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1971	7th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1969	Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Publishing and References
1996	"Lee UFan", Lisson Gallery, London
1994	"The Works of Lee UFan" Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
1993	"The Works of Lee UFan" Toshi Shupan, Tokyo
1988	"Time Flicker", Ozawa Shoten, Tokyo
1986	"Time Printworks of Lee UFan 1970-1986", Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
1971	"The Search for Encounter", Tabata Shoten, Tokyo

Collections
The Naional Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Sao Paulo Art Library, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sonia Henie-Niels Onstand Museum, Oslo, Norway
Berlin National Galerie, Berlin
Stuttgart Stadts Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Fukuoka Museum of Art, Hukuoka, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Kreller-M?ller Rijksmuseum, Otterloo, Holland
Le Mus?e de Sculpture en Plein Air, Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Ho-am Art Museum, Seoul
Sonje Museum of Art, Kyongju, Korea
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan
St?dtisches Museum Leverkisen, Germany
Hanlim Museum, Daejon, Korea
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan