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18/4/2008

Lee Ufan

Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Bruxelles

Ufan was born in 1936 in South-Korea. He received a traditional education including the learning of calligraphy, poesy and painting. At Tokyo, in the fifties he is one of the founders of the Mono-Ha ("School of Things") which recommends a minimal style and the exclusive use of elements of natural origin. Those principles are expressed in the "Correspondences" serie, initiated at the end of the eighties: the painter limits his action to the application of wide marks of a brush dipped into pigments and oil on a white background. His sculptures only comprise a mere stone on which a heavy steel plate is affixed. The artist doesn't modify the one neither the other; he only interferes to put them together: "A trite metal plate could be a thought. The vague stones could be the air. The resonance space of the work enlarged, vibrating all around".

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