Saturday, August 20

Lee Ufan


Visit to Guggenheim Museum - Current Exhibition: Lee Ufan - Marking Infinity

Lee Ufan's monochrome paintings is a fresh approach to minimalist abstraction at his time. The repetitive gestural marks presents bodily records of time's perpetual passage.

From Point, 1975. Glue and mineral pigment on canvas, 194 x 291 cm. The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka. © 2011 Lee Ufan



From Line, 1977. Glue and mineral pigment on canvas, 182 x 227 cm. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. © 2011 Lee Ufan


Resonance

It was so peaceful to be in the last room where the artist created his work to be perceived as "birth". I felt purified and cleansed from all emotions and thoughts...



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