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while clearly respectful of their culture and heritage, many artists who have emerged in the twenty-first century are struggling to discover, digest, and communicate innovative new forms. They are filled with desire to break through the predictable forms of representation and static ideas of expression used by Korean Modernists in former times. This does not imply they are looking to imitate Western art and aesthetics, even though, in some cases, this may be partially true. In general, younger Korean artists want to move their own traditions forward, to develop a more relevant and compelling approach to art, open to the imagination and to a reinterpretation of the past.
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I believe that Lee, Seong-oh is one of these artists. I understand his work as symptomatic of an era. While clearly aware of the hanji tradition that reaches back to the Silla Dynasty, if not before, Mr. Lee wants to give the concept of paperwork a bright and enlightened future, one in keeping with the advent of globalization without necessarily sacrificing those traits that identify his work as being Korean. In his recent work, I discover signs with a wide variety of sources and affinities: secular icons from sixties pop culture in America, magazine advertising, traditional Korean landscapes, Buddhist mandalas, shamanist cosmologies£a conflation of signs where the meaning remains open, yet at the same time, provocative. Lee, Seong-oh will intersperse traditional views of trees in the Korean landscape with images taken from Pop artists, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. In the process, cosmic wheels are reconstructed through the artist¡¯s keenly attuned imagination. In these works, the artist employs tightly bound wads of paper taken from recent magazines and other printed matter.
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In the process of constructing these constructed paper ¡°collages,¡±Lee¡¯s palette is less concerned with the source of imagery than with the formal choice of color ? namely, the spectrum of hues, including red, green, blue, yellow, black and white. Rather than paint the surface of a canvas, Lee bundles these wads of paper together to create reproductions of Van Gogh¡¯s landscapes, portraits, flowers, and other rustic scenes from southern France? not always painted by the Dutchman, but in reference to his subject matter and style. In addition, Lee will reinterpret the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch¡¯s famous painting, The Scream, along with portraits taken not only from Munch or Van Gogh, but also from old photographs taken of Korean field workers published decades ago. In some cases, Mr. Lee will accept commissioned portraits of entrepreneurs, socialite couples, and celebrities, not unlike his mentor Warhol in the decade of the seventies. His interest in Warhol¡¯s use of repeated mass media imagery and portraiture has played a major role in his recent work.
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The repetition of signs in a modular progression is a concept used frequently by Warhol ? as in the Brillo Boxes and Soup Cans in the early sixties - and probably, to some extent, influenced the industrial or detached advertising appearance of both Minimal and Conceptual art in New York. In the work of Lee Seong-oh, the repetition ? often in a modular square format?offers a rhythmic punctuation to film and comic book portraiture and other abstract elements. The repetition may allude to forms of transposed meaning contained within the syntax of the signs. Here I would suggest that Lee is interested in the appearance of these modular elements as a way of generating an exchange of understanding between Western and Eastern media. His work emphasizes the deconstruction of familiar art world signs found largely in Western culture, ranging from Pop art to various forms of Expressionism.
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¡ÞLee Seung-oh graduated from Chungang University College of Fine Arts Department of Painting and Graduate Schoolof Western Painting. He held solo exhibits at Gallery K, Gwanhun Gallery and Total Art Museum, while also participating in a number of group exhibits such as the New Collection Exhibit (National Museum of Contemporary Art).
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