The latest iteration of Lee Ufan’s meditative practice offers human-scale canvases with swatches of color in gradations from gossamer to opaque.Tansaekhwa, or monochromatic painting, emerged in the wake of Korea’s independence from Japan, becoming the international face of contemporary Korean art and a
pillar of contemporary Asian art.
A pioneer of the movement, Lee will debut paintings from the “Dialogue” series — including Dialogue, 2011 — in the United States in his second solo show at Pace Gallery. It opens on May 15, a month after Korea’s Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated two floors of the gallery to a permanent installation of his works.At Pace, watercolors and stone-and-steel sculptures join paintings in the gallery’s space to complete the kind of discursive, site-specific installation for which Lee is known.The show is on view through June 20.A version of this article appears in the May 2015 issue of Art + Auction.
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