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LEE Eu
LeeEu
(Lee Eunhwa)
born in 1976 in South Korea
in France since 2002.
LeeEu’s latest series “Painting in Question” is a work that focuses mainly on the relationship between the canvas and the pigments, but also on their materiality. This painting thus challenges us as a pictorial object, that is, as a painting that does not excessively imply a realistic sense and does not evoke anything other than material reality.
The excessive mass of pigments, like a material overflowing from the square canvas, makes us wonder about painting thanks to this unknown situation generated by the link that the canvas, the medium of painting, maintains with the pigments. Indeed, the mass of pigments freed from the square frame allows us to recognize the canvas, which until now was only a window, an image inviting us to dive into the illusion, like a new tool of square modeling. Thus, we are no longer content to contemplate the universe contained by the canvas, but we can now observe the canvas itself, i.e. the state of the material.
Moreover, the artist’s minimalist work, which consists in creating a form sometimes by resorting mainly to the gravitational force, sometimes by adding simple brushstrokes, makes us reflect on the laborious work of painting.
The minimal intervention of the artist, the pigments overflowing from the canvas and this painting questioned that no longer represents a flat surface, but rather the shape of an object … And through this questioning, we leave again to the research of the artistic elements offered by this painting in question.
Education
1999 University of Hong-Ik, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, France
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Lee Eu, Peinture en question, Galerie Artwork Paris-Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Lee Eu, Maison Suri, Paris, France
2020 Lee Eu, Galerie Yeonoje, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Lee Eu, Galerie Artwork Paris-Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Lire entre les ligne, Daegu art factory, Daegu, South Korea
2017 Être, Galerie Regard Sud, Lyon, France
2016 Lee Eu, Galerie Artwork Paris-Séoul, Séoul, South Korea
2016 Lee Eu, nouvelles peintures, Galerie Iconoclastes, Paris, France
2013 Fragrances, Galerie l’art à la page, Paris, France
2011 Paysages, objets, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2023 Structure en mouvement, Duo show, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2022 Art-ist, Boontheshop, Seoul, South Korea
2022 KABINETT of Collectors, Hyundai Deaprtement store, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Parchment, Yoonsun Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
2022 Imagine peace, Square root, Gosung, South Korea
2021 Sonamou 30 years, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
2021 Sonamou, Beaubourg24, Paris, France
2021 The flat fold, Maison juste, Paris, France
2020 Lumières d'hiver , Galerie Horizon, Paris, France
2019 Crossroads, Daegu artfactory, Daegu, South Korea
2019 The infinity of art, Ulsan art center, Ulsan, South Korea
2018 Gan, Bastille design center, Paris, France
2017 Construction time again, Bastille design center, Paris, France
2016 Before the word, gallery 89, Paris, France
2015 Le dessin dans tous ses états, Korean cultural center, Paris, France
2014 8967, Atelier Gustave, Paris, France
2014 Nos plus belles années, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
2014 Regards croisés, Mairie du 7e, Paris, France
2013 AJAC 30 YEARS, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2013 Lisières, Espace KIA, Paris, France
2013 Matière des songes, Espace des Arts sans frontières, Paris, France
2012 Walk, Korean Cultural Center, Berlin, Germany
2012 Marabout ficelle, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
2012 Demeures, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2012 Say, See, Sense, Korean Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain
2011 Printemps Jaillissant, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
2011 Intime, extime, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
2010 Le spectacle figé, Espace Tristan Bernard, Paris, France
Fairs
Bibliography
Public Collection
City of Seoul, South Korea
Lyon City, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Louis Vuitton, Seoul, South Korea
Residences
2022 Pium residency, South Korea
2018 Daegu art factory, South Korea
2011 Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Address
10 rue des jardins, 57000 Metz, France
Hours
Wednesday-Saturday 11.00am-6.00pm
Contact us
+33 3 87 68 52 40