"I felt that what has been missing is a story of the trajectory of his work. He's an artist philosopher, a thinker, and I would say his movement through the different series of painterly works has been very clearly conceptualised. It felt appropriate to take [visitors] through his painterly journey, so to speak, from the late 1960s through to the present day."
"[It is] an overview of these different movements and painting, which actually are quite literally movements, from the expressive series From Line to the works [1973-84] to where movement comes in with the Wind series [1982-91]. Paintings from the Correspondance series dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s will also feature."
"It is a bed of sand with hundreds and hundreds of iron rods handplaced [on the work], creating this incredible impression of a natural landscape almost but clearly with an industrial form. Visitors can walk across a piece called Mirror Road comprised of polished steel plates, giving the impression of walking on water."
Lee Ufan, a South Korean artist and leading figure in the Japanese Mono-ha movement, will have a major retrospective exhibition at San Marco Art Centre during the Venice Biennale (9 May-22 November). Curator Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, has organized the show to trace Ufan's artistic trajectory across seven decades. The exhibition features paintings from multiple series including From Line, Wind series, and Correspondence series, alongside significant sculptural works. Notable pieces include Relatum, a sand bed with hundreds of handplaced iron rods creating an industrial landscape impression, and Mirror Road, polished steel plates allowing visitors to walk across them. The exhibition celebrates Ufan's 90th birthday and demonstrates his evolution as an artist-philosopher, showcasing new large-scale paintings with dimensional brushstrokes previously absent from his practice.
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