Minimal abstract painting: centered vertical rounded rectangle with a gradient from pale cyan to deep navy on a white background, faint signature lower right.

Lee Ufan

Dialogue

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A new limited edition print by Lee Ufan distils his philosophical vision into one signature stroke.

Dialogue is a quintessential example of what has made Lee Ufan a revolutionary figure in East Asian contemporary art. As a leading voice in Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) and founder of the Mono-ha movement, his restrained gestures, rooted in his childhood practice of calligraphy, create what he calls "a direct encounter with the world".

In this work, a single blue-to-white brushstroke amidst negative space captures his decades-long exploration of colour and form, stillness and movement, silence and gesture.

The 21-colour silkscreen print includes hand-drawn details that capture the depth and subtleties of the artist’s influential work. The edition is made in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, which the launch fundraises for.

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A person with white hair and glasses, wearing an orange sweater, works at a table with colorful prints near a window with a city view.

Lee Ufan4 collaborationsLee Ufan is the multidisciplinary master that revolutionised East Asian art in the mid-20th century. His conceptually-rich but visually-restrained practice might look like the minimalism that arose concurrently in the west, but it has very different foundations. Lee studied painting in Seoul for only a few months in 1956 before moving to Japan to study philosophy instead. Nonetheless, by the mid-70s he was a leading figure in Dansaekhwa – Korean monochrome painting. The celebrated From Line and From Point series were influenced by calligraphy exercises he practised as a child. The meditative repetition of lines and dots requires complete command of mind, body, and brush.

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