Exhibition Information

Lee Ungno: Group image
1985 Korean paper painting 21.5×81cm

Lee Ungno: Composition
1976 Mixed materials on canvas 123×63cm

			“Meet Lee Ungno again in space-time of the past and present”

It is the artist’s studio, the space of creation for artworks through his or her life. For Goam, the pen name of Lee Ungno, who moved to Paris behind honorable and stable living in Korea, atelier is not only the workspace but also the source of creation.

In exhibition <Lee Ungno's Room>, modern artists from Daejeon cooperate to re-construct ‘Goam Atelier’ at the gallery, bedding works to fit the theme of each exhibition room, making it a modern reenactment. Visitors will intuitively understand his world of art through the staged space ‘Goam Atelier’, the connection point between the past and the present.

This exhibition offers an opportunity to experience what Goam tried and challenged to create a figurative language with an Oriental identity in the center of European art for his enthusiastic artworks. The exhibition focused on reenacting the Goam atelier, where there are various objet from the Oriental art to the Western art affected by Pré Saint-Gervais. While embracing modernism in Europe, he also unfolded his own Asian worldview and it will be a chance to see where this kind of his artistic inspiration comes from.

A notable part of the exhibition, the reconstruction of his atelier, was conducted in collaboration with the Daejeon artist group ‘128 art project’. ‘The 128 art project’, which has developed its own unique artistic sensibility and capabilities through diverse genres of cultural art, and the Lee Eung-no Museum of Art reenact the artist’s atelier sensibly together with motif from Goam's library and designs of the past Europe.