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LEE Kang-So, <Untitled-75031>, Wood, Cock, Met, Plaster, Iron, Chalk, 9 Photographs and String, 25x350x350cm, 1975
LEE Kang-So, <Becoming(Apples)>, Apples, straw mat, ceramic ware, 30x120x100cm, 1974
[Korea] LEE Kang-So Untitled-75031 Becoming(Apples)
Lee Kang-So's search for an expressive form capable of communicating the essence of contemporary life began in the 1970s with a series of pioneering painting, print, photograph, drawing, installation, objects, sculpture, performance, and video. For his first solo exhibition in Seoul in 1973 he turned the gallery into a temporary bar for a week; at the 1975 Paris Biennale he covered the floor with plaster powder and presented a single, live chicken tied to a stake at its centre so that it created traces. Incompleteness and the anticipation of an event are recurring themes that Lee extends to painting, which, while dominant in his practice since 1985, is diversified through an emphasis on process and procedure, and the conscious invitation of spontaneity and coincidence. |
