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Medium | Framed dimensions: 50.8cm W x 40.64cm H

Large size | Framed dimensions: 71.12cm W x 55.88cm H

Production: giclée, made in the United States.

Edition: open edition

Production: Produced by an American art museum with official authorization from Lee Ufan; imported from the United States.

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Lee Ufan's signature From Line series consists of large-scale works composed of individual blue lines. These blue lines, cascading like raindrops, are made by dipping the brush tip in blue pigment and drawing continuously downward in a single direction until the pigment on the brush is completely exhausted. Although drawn downward, they create the illusion of lines rising upward.

These lines, as if carefully combed into place, can also make one's tangled thoughts feel neatly untangled. Lee Ufan repeats each brushstroke until the brush runs out of paint, maintaining a steady rhythm and order while bringing a sense of movement to the image. As the strokes gradually fade, they create shifting gradations of light and dark, symbolizing beginnings and endings and the changes of life.

The empty space at the bottom of the work, in particular, symbolizes the concept of “emergence and disappearance.” Through this gradually blurring blank area, viewers seem to enter a meditative state, their minds gradually growing calm.

About the artist / Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan is a master working across disciplines who transformed East Asian art in the mid-20th century. His concepts are profound, while his visual language is extremely restrained. At first glance, his work may resemble the Minimalism emerging in the West at the same time, but its foundations are entirely different.

After briefly studying painting in Seoul for a few months in 1956, Lee Ufan went to Japan to study philosophy instead. By the mid-1970s, however, he had become one of the leading figures in Korea's Dansaekhwa (“monochrome painting”) movement. His renowned From Line and From Point series were inspired by the calligraphy he practiced as a child. Through meditative, repeated movements of lines and dots, these works demonstrate exceptional control of mind, body, and brushstroke.

Lee Ufan makes little distinction between his identities as an artist, poet, and philosopher, because all three have the same aim for him: to reveal the true nature of existence. He once said, “In everyday life... this world is nothing more than an inconsequential landscape, as if it did not exist, and is therefore alienated from us.”

In the late 1960s, he led the Mono-ha movement, literally the 'School of Things.' Rejecting representational objects, the movement sought direct dialogue and physical interaction with the world. His Relatum series, begun in 1968, embodies this approach: unusual yet precise arrangements of abstract materials seek to awaken viewers and free them from habitual, passive modes of perception.

These installation works—for example, Relatum—Phenomena and Perception B (1968), in which a stone presses down on shattered glass, and Relatum—The Arch of Versailles (2014), in which two enormous stones sit at opposite ends of a steel arch—convey a message: our existence is contingent, and the universe is fragile.

Biography: Lee Ufan (male) was born in South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, in 1936 and went to Japan to attend university in 1956. He currently lives and works between Japan and Paris.

Art museums: In addition to having his work held in major public collections around the world, Lee Ufan has two art museums named after him. The Lee Ufan Museum on Naoshima, Japan, was designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando. Lee Ufan Arles, in southern France, is an exhibition space and cultural venue dedicated to presenting his artistic practice and ideas.

Lee Ufan is a master working across disciplines who transformed East Asian art in the mid-20th century. His concepts are profound, while his visual language is extremely restrained. At first glance, his work may resemble the Minimalism emerging in the West at the same time, but its foundations are entirely different.

After briefly studying painting in Seoul for a few months in 1956, Lee Ufan went to Japan to study philosophy instead. By the mid-1970s, however, he had become one of the leading figures in Korea's Dansaekhwa (“monochrome painting”) movement. His renowned From Line and From Point series were inspired by the calligraphy he practiced as a child. Through meditative, repeated movements of lines and dots, these works demonstrate exceptional control of mind, body, and brushstroke.

Lee Ufan makes little distinction between his identities as an artist, poet, and philosopher, because all three have the same aim for him: to reveal the true nature of existence. He once said, “In everyday life... this world is nothing more than an inconsequential landscape, as if it did not exist, and is therefore alienated from us.”

In the late 1960s, he led the Mono-ha movement, literally the 'School of Things.' Rejecting representational objects, the movement sought direct dialogue and physical interaction with the world. His Relatum series, begun in 1968, embodies this approach: unusual yet precise arrangements of abstract materials seek to awaken viewers and free them from habitual, passive modes of perception.

These installation works—for example, Relatum—Phenomena and Perception B (1968), in which a stone presses down on shattered glass, and Relatum—The Arch of Versailles (2014), in which two enormous stones sit at opposite ends of a steel arch—convey a message: our existence is contingent, and the universe is fragile.

Biography: Lee Ufan (male) was born in South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, in 1936 and went to Japan to attend university in 1956. He currently lives and works between Japan and Paris.

Art museums: In addition to having his work held in major public collections around the world, Lee Ufan has two art museums named after him. The Lee Ufan Museum on Naoshima, Japan, was designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando. Lee Ufan Arles, in southern France, is an exhibition space and cultural venue dedicated to presenting his artistic practice and ideas.