Exhibition Information

1983 Ink and color on korea paper 27.5 x 43 cm

People
1987 35 x 34 cm

Exhibition view

			Gana Art will hold a retrospective exhibition of works by artist “Goam” Lee Ungno. The exhibition was organized in order to re-illuminate the Crowd series by Lee Ungno, who built a world of art with extraordinary amplitude while experiencing the division of his nation and even being jailed as a political prisoner. Though Lee’s later works have generally been evaluated within the discipline of ‘abstraction’ in terms of subject, content and meaning, the artist’s interest was always in ‘people.’ While exploring a new direction for traditional ‘paper-brush-ink’ painting shortly after Liberation, Lee realized ‘new formative language’ as his major task. Through this exhibition at a transitional time of consciousness, we hope to enter the artist’s picture-planes, which are filled with deep insights into Korean art and transcend various constraints of the times, so that we, too, can imagine the happy promises he painted. By focusing particularly on Lee’s Crowd, a dance of reunification and a dance of democracy reflecting his lifetime wish, the exhibition will view his artistic achievements from various angles. We hope it will also allow spectators to feel the rhythms reverberating in the margins of his works, the vivid essence of his free, confident brush strokes.