Böcker av Lee Ufan

Linking Ufan's inversions of European objectivity with one of Rembrandt's most famous self-portraitsThis catalog accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of the Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan (born 1936) in Germany. The exhibition gathers around 50 works from the past five decades, featuring an extraordinary highlight. Rembrandt's famous Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret (1634) from the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is shown for the first time at Hamburger Bahnhof alongside Lee's expansive installation Relatum - The Mirror Road (2016-23). Ufan, who repeatedly refers to European roots in his corpus of works, enters into a multilayered dialogue with the Old Master.This monograph presents ample installation shots, as well as thorough scholarship on Ufan's immense impact on the postwar art movements of Japan and Korea; how the artist's philosophical writings shaped the collective Mono-ha (School of Things), which was active in Tokyo from 1968 to 1975; and how his abstract paintings of the mid-1970s are emblematic of the Korean collective Dansaekhwa.

A window into the lifelong friendship and artistic dialogue between two leaders in painterly and sculptural abstractionBoth born in 1936, Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat each played key roles in major movements: Mono-ha in Japan and Supports/Surfaces in France. This book documents their first joint exhibition in 2023 at Pace Gallery, London, with illustrations of their work and new texts by Lee, Viallat and curator Alfred Pacquement.

Painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the major proponents of the Japanese avant-garde group Mono-ha. Japan's first contemporary art movement to gain international recognition, the Mono-ha school of thought rejected Western notions of representation, choosing to focus on the relationships of materials and perceptions rather than on expression or intervention. A new edition of a collection of writings first published in 2004, this volume features previously unpublished essays from 1967-2007 and a recent interview with Hans Ulrich-Obrist. This edition has been published by Lisson Gallery and the Serpentine Galleries on the occasion of Lee Ufan's outdoor commission, Relatum-Stage at Serpentine Galleries, London (6 February 2018 - 27 January 2019). Revised Edition.