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Lee Ufan

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Lee Ufan, born in 1936 in what is now South Korea, is a Korean sculptor, painter and theorist who became the principal thinker behind Mono-ha, the School of Things that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s. His sculptures set raw industrial and natural materials, stone, steel, glass, in deliberate relation to one another and to their surrounding space, favoring the encounter between material and viewer over depiction or expression.

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Gender
Male 1
Active From Year
1967 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Lee Ufan
Sculpture, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Lee Ufan
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Nationality

South Korea

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Seoul

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1. Wikipedia: Lee Ufan
  • Biography section, honors paragraph
    Having lived and worked in Japan for much of his professional life, Lee has been honored by the Japanese government for having "contributed to the development of contemporary art in Japan."
  • Lead section
    Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환; Hanja: 李禹煥, Korean pronunciation: [iːuhwan]; born 1936) is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic, known for innovative bodies of work emphasizing process, materials, and the experiential engagement of viewer and site, and critiques of European phenomenology.
  • Early life
    He had his first solo exhibition at the Sato Gallery in Tokyo in March 1967
  • In Group: Postwar and Contemporary Sculptors, Lead
    Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환; Hanja: 李禹煥, Korean pronunciation: [iːuhwan]; born 1936) is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic, known for innovative bodies of work emphasizing process, materials, and the experiential engagement of viewer and site, and critiques of European phenomenology.
  • Practices: Painting, Lead
    is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic
  • Practices: Sculpture, Lead
    is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic
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Wikidata: Lee Ufan
Wikidata Q399775, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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