lEE JAEHYO GRASS FLOWER
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lEE JAEHYO GRASS FLOWER
LEE JAEHYO GRASS FLOWER
HADA Contemporary is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Lee Jaehyo (b. 1965) presenting his significant installation work, 0121-1110=1080620 (2008), along with the recent nails on charred woods works. With strong emphasis on materials’ inherent nature, Lee’s practice ‘is about the material: everything begins and ends with the material…. I simply want to show the nature of common raw materials such as wood and nails… to discover a different way to present them.’[1] The extraordinary craftsmanship embracing the natural state of the material may it be woods, stones or nails, his organic and geometric constructions expose the often forgotten beauty of the conventional subjects. As the ar tist comments, ‘I do not have the power to create a beautiful world. I just hope to reveal the beauty in what is usually seen but unnoticed. If you look closely enough, a twisted rustic nail is also beautiful.’ In 0121-1110=1080620, the humble stones are assembled and rearranged to form a monument that assimilates the awe and sublime of the nature. The synergy of the ar tist’s ar tificial intervention with the natural evolution is essential to his materials and the artistic practice. Mundane objects such as nails and woods transforms into novel entities through the ar tist’s painstakingly earnest and dexterous conversation with materials. Allowing the materials to unfold their innate natural state through his gentle and crafty manipulation, his sculptures from common objects reject any finite definition or interpretation. In fact, his endeavours are the invitation to the audience for the experience to the profundity that emits from the surfaces, forms, materials and the harmony emanated through the orchestration of all. ‘I want to make a work that does not require words... I think the greatest difference in the western and the eastern culture is the necessity for words. The key characteristic of the western visual culture is the debate, argument and attestation and to unravel the meaning carefully hidden behind the work. On the contrary, the eastern visual culture can be emphasised by the silence. Isimjeonsim (이심전심, 以心傳心). Every step of the process of making a work is the unification of the work and the ar tist.’ The concept
Isimjeonsim – loosely translated as the connection of minds initially originated from the Buddhist scripture Compendium of the Five Lamplight Records (오등회원, 五燈會元, c. 1253) - elaborates on the idea of the silent communication through the senses and experiences that artist stresses as Buddha transmits the speechless wisdom to the disciple Mahakasyapa in the story of the Flower
Sermon. The vastness and magnanimousness of nature that inspire the ar tist’s dialogues with his materials endow his sculpture with a universality that engages anyone who wishes to venture beyond surface and object.[2] As Laurencina Farrant-Lee observes, Lee ‘possesses strong emotional and spiritual ties to his native landscape and culture and draw from Korean aesthetics to sustain, complement and fur ther their contemporary statement’[3]. It is the artist, the nature and the object in their interconnectedness and the cyclical nature of life that they embody that you encounter. Lee Jaehyo (b. 1965) lives and works in Gyeonggido, South Korea. He received BFA at Hongik University in Seoul. He has exhibited internationally at National Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Korea; Seoul Museum of Ar t, Korea; Sungkok Museum of Ar t, Seoul; Saatchi Gallery, London; Montgomery Museum of Fine Ar ts, Alabama; Nampo Ar t Museum, Korea, Ilmin Museum of Ar t, Korea; Basel Ar t Center, Switzerland among others. He was awarded with the Hankook Ilbo Young Ar tists Award in 1997; the Osaka Triennial Award in 1998; the Kim Sae-Jung Award in 2000; the Sculpture in Woodland Award in 2002 and the Japan Hyogo International Competition Award in 2004. His works are included in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Korea; Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan; Busan Metropolitan Ar t Museum, South Korea; and the Osaka Contemporary Ar t Center, Japan.
Tristan Manco, ‘Jae-Hyo Lee’, Raw + Material = Ar t, Found, Scavenged and Upcycled, Thames and Hudson, 2012, p. 179 Jungeun Lee, Lee Jaehyo: Beautiful Dialogue, HADA Contemporary London, 2012 [3] Laurencina Farrant-Lee, ‘Simply Beautiful Exhibition Concept’, Lee Jaehyo. Simply Beautiful: Breadth of Nature in Korean Contemporary Art, CentrePasquArt, Biel, 2006, n.p. [1] [2]
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0121-1110=114028 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 490 x 215 x 8 cm | 2014
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0121-1110=1080620 | stone | 285 x 151 x 520 cm | 2008
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0121-1110=113112 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 240 x 70 x 35 cm | 2013
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0121-1110=1130615 | wood (juniper) | 70 x 96 x 74 cm | 2013
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0121-1110=113104 | wood (larch) | 66 x 77 x 42 cm | 2013
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0121-1110=111081 | wood (camellia) | 97 x 50 x 50 cm (include base 26cm) | 2011
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0121-1110=112126 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 73 x 125 x 8 cm | 2012
0121-1110=108046 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 60 x 60 x 6 cm | 2008
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0121-1110=110025 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 80 x 76 x 7 cm | 2010
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0121-1110=111013 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 50 x 50 x 6 cm | 2011
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0121-1110=1081118 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 83 x 55 x 6 cm | 2008
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0121-1110=1090510 | stainless steel bolts, nails & wood | 54 x 102 x 7 cm | 2009
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LEE JAEHYO b.1965 Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea EDUCATION 1992 BFA, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Grass Flower, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
Hongik Sculpture Exhibition, Triennaledi Milano Incheon Museum,
2012 Transformations, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Gyeonggi, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Madison Gallery, San Diego, USA
Sculpture Objects & Functional Ar t Fair, New York, USA
Beautiful Dialogue, Hada Contemporary, London, UK
Multi Effect, Gallery Ihn, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Parkryesook Gallery. Seoul, Korea
30th Anniversary of the Young Korean Ar tists, National Museum of
Lee Jaehyo 199102012, Sungkuk Ar t Museum, Seoul, Korea Solo Exhibition, Cynthia-Reeves Contemporary, New York, USA 2011 Solo Exhibition, Momtgomery Museum of Fine Ar ts, Alabama, USA
Contemporary Ar t, Seoul, Korea 2009 A Korea& Singapore Joint Sculpture Exhibition, Singapore-Botanic Garden, Singapore
Solo Exhibition, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Yangpyeong Environmental Ar t, South Han River, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Galeria Ethra, Mexico
Touchar t Book Ar tists, Touchar t Gallery, Paju, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Noordeinde, Netherlands 2010 The Force of Will: The force of nature, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Korea International Ar t Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea Ar t Fair Taipei 2009, Taiwan
Solo Exhibition, Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Like of Yves Saint Laurent, Gallery Ar tside, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition, REEVES Contemporary, New York, USA
Korean Aesthetics, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Solo Exhibition, Nampo Ar t Museum, Korea
Mad for furniture, Nefspace, Seoul, Korea
2009 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Sol Beach, Korea Solo Exhibition, Ever Harvest Ar t Gallery, Taiwan
Hong Kong Ar t Fair, Gallery Keumsan, Seoul, Korea Korea Galleries Ar t Fair, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Keumsan, Japan
Step of a Bull, Jang Eun Sun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Force of Nature, Solo Exhibition, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
The Great Hands, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Solo Exhibition, MANAS Ar t Center, Korea
2008 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Ar ts and Design, New York,
Solo Exhibition, Dosi Gallery. Seoul Korea
USA
Solo Exhibition, Bundo Gallery, Korea
Korea Now: Emerging Korean Ar t, Ar tLink, Israel
Solo Exhibition, REEVES Contemporary, New York
Sanghai Contemporary Ar t Fair, Sanghai, China
2007 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Keumsan, Japan
Korea International Ar t Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ar tside, China
Daegu Ar t Fair, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Keumsan, Korea
Ar t Museum the Traveling, National Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Seoul,
2005 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ar tside, Korea
Korea
2003 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Won, Korea
Living Design fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2001 Solo Exhibition, Vermont Studio Center, USA
Contemporary Neo_metaphor 2008, Insa ar t center, Seoul, Korea
2000 Solo Exhibition, Ilmin Museum of Ar t, Korea
Seoul Ar t Fair, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
1996 Solo Exhibition, Museum of Seoul Ar ts Center, Korea
Opening 10th Busan Municipal Museum of Ar t, Busan Municipal Museum of Ar t, Busan, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Changwon Asian Contemporary Ar t Exhibition, Changwon Ar t Hall,
2013 Seek & Desire, Gyeongnam Ar t Museum, Korea
Changwon, Korea
Contemporar y Ar t in the Textbook. Aram Museum, Seoul, Korea 2012 Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Circle & Sqaure, N Gallery Planning Invitation Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand 2007 Lee jaehyo, Park seungmo, Chio taehoon Group Exhibition, Manas ar t center,
China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
Gyeongi, Korea
A Magic Moment, Basel Ar t Center, Basel, Switzerland
From Dot to Dot, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
Water, HADA Gallery, London, UK
Living Design fair, Designer’s Choice-COEX, Seoul, Korea
2011 International Sculpture Symposium in Icheon, Icheon, Korea Moving Ar t Village, Nampo Ar t Museum, Korea SOFA New York 2011, New York, USA Gotenyama Exhibition, Ippodo Gallery, Gotenyama, Japan 2010 2010 Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
Beijing Ar t Fair, Beijing, China Tuning Boloni, China 2006 Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquAr t, Biel, Switzerland Ar t Canal, River Suze, Switzerland EHS Project, Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, Korea
The Seoul Ar t Exhibition 2010, Seoul Museum of Ar t, Seoul, Korea
China International Gallery Exposition 2006, Beijing, China
G20 Seoul Summit Celebration Exhibition for the Korean Fine Ar ts,
Alchemy of Daily Life, New Zealand
National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea
Vibration, EBS Broadcasting Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
Ar t Docking Spot, Woomyoung Ar t Museum, Hanam, Korea KIAF-VIP Lounge, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2005 Vibration, Seoul City Ar t Museum, Seoul, Korea
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Hyogo International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of
National Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Korea
Ar t, Japan
Moran Museum, Korea
Ar t & Mathematics, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
Ilmin Museum of Ar t, Korea
2004 A Open Commemoration the Olympic Museum, Olympic Museum, Seoul,
Busan Municipal Museum of Ar t, Korea
Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Morden Ar t, Korea
100% Propose, Gallery Sea & See, Busan, Korea
63 City Tower, Korea
Imjin River, The Side of Imjin River, Gyeonggi, Korea
W-Seoul Walker-hill Hotel, Korea
Alchemy of Daily Life, National Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Seoul, Korea
Borgata Hotel, USA
Wave, Dosi Gallery, Busan, Korea
Park Hyatt Hotel Shanghai, China
2003 Out of Wood, Kim Chong-Yung Sculpture Museum, Seoul, Korea
Osaka Contemporary Ar t Center of Japan, Japan
The Happy Sympathy Between Human and Wood, Daejeon Municipal Museum
MGM Hotel, USA
of Ar t, Daejeon, Korea
Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Ar t, Japan
Benchmarking Project, Namsan Park, Seoul, Korea
Intercontinental Hotel, Switzerland
40`s Ar tist, Gallery Moro, Seoul, Korea
Briton Place-UMU Restaurant, UK
Ar t Bench, Ar t Side, Seoul, Korea
Sculpture in Woodland, Ireland
2002 To Became One with Nature, YungEun Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Taiwan
International Environmental Ar t Exhibition a Red-bellied Frog’s Cry, Seoul Ar ts
Park Hyatt Hotel Washington DC, USA
Center, Seoul, Korea
Marriott Hotel, Korea
DeulMok Association, Gallery Agio, Gyeonggi, Korea
Cornell University Herber t F. Johnson Museum, USA
2001 Good Design Festival, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Grand Hyatt Hotel Berlin, Germany
The Association of Asian Contemporary Sculpture, YungEun Museum,
President Wilson Hotel, Swiss
Gyeonggi, Korea
Phoenix Island, Korea
Lee Jae-Hyo, Han Sueng-Gon Exhibition, Hotel Lotte, Korea
Pusan National University Hospital, Korea
Water, Wood, Metal, Ear th, Live, Insa Ar t Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Industrial Bank, Taiwan Crown Hotel, Australia
1991~2000 Par ticipated in more than 40 Group Exhibitions AWARDS 2008 Prize of Excellence of 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Contest 2005 Prize of Excellence of Hyogo International Competition of Painting 2002 Sculpture in Woodland Award 2000 Kim Sae-Jung Young Ar tist Prize 1998 Grand Prize Winner of Osaka Triennial Winner of Young Ar tist of the Day Presented by the Ministry of Culture 1997 Grand Prize Winner of Invited Young Ar tist sponsored by Hankook Ilbo 1995 Win Special Recognition at Kongsan Ar t Festival
Park Hyatt Hotel Zurich, Switzerland