Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

(Source = Kukje Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Kukje Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Kukje Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Kukje Gallery)

			Kukje Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Lee Seung Jio (1941-1990) from September 1 to October 30, 2022. The artist's first exhibition with the gallery, the presentation of thirty works will examine anew the unique visual language of a painter who devoted his practice to developing a vocabulary of geometric abstraction in Korea.

Born in 1941 in Yongcheon, Pyeonganbuk Province, Lee Seung Jio moved to the south with his family in the post-liberation period. After joining art clubs in middle and high schools, he devoted himself to painting while a student at Hongik University, joining the Department of Western Painting in 1960. In 1962, he founded the Origin Group with his fellow artists including Kwon Young-Woo and Suh Seung-Won. As the name indicates, the avant-garde group sought a reduction to the foundational elements of art, as it fought against the conventional aesthetic systems of the time. Cultivating a visual language of his own, in 1967 Lee presented the first work in his Nucleus series, a title chosen by the artist for its association with an irreducible core element.
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(Source = Kukje Gallery)