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Landslide at I-MYU

17-Nov-08

Landslide at I-MYU

Notice of I-MYU's upcoming group show: LANDSLIDE GORDON CHEUNG / MASAKATSU KONDO / SEA HYUN LEE 19 November – 20 December I-MYU PROJECTS is pleased to present LANDSLIDE, a group show that brings together the work of artists, Gordon Cheung, Masakatsu Kondo and Sea Hyun Lee, who working internationally each have strong links to Eastern Asia, to China, Japan and South Korea respectively. Their work individually and collectively informs a site of landscape that draws on historical representations of landscape from the East and West as well as current social and political interchanges between its cultures and economies. Gordon Cheung’s paintings create spaces of fictive encounter that draw on the lucid nostalgia of multiple layers of cultural motifs that include comic books, cinema and computer ...
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Impossible landscapes

07-Jul-08

Impossible landscapes

Recently in London we’ve seen two seemingly very different responses to traditional Korean and Chinese landscape painting. In March we had Lim Taek (임택) at I-MYU; just finished at Union we had Lee Sea-hyun (이세현). Both artists portray the familiar mountains, the occasional ancient pavilion dotting the landscape. But Lim’s mountains are simple blocks of white against a rich blue sky, and while Lee respects the conventions and has a blank background against which his carefully delineated peaks are set, he defies conventions in another way by presenting his landscapes in a ghostly red. Considering the two responses side by side allows some interesting similarities and contrasts to be highlighted. Left: Lim Taek: Transferred Landscape. Right: Lee Sea-hyun: Between Red Stand in ...
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Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue

18-Jun-08

Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue

The Union Gallery behind Tate Modern has been showing Sea Hyun Lee's vivid red landscapes since last month. Katie Kitamura has been beavering away on a catalogue for the exhibition. That's now ready, giving an opportunity for a mid-show celebration: the catalogue will be launched at an evening event on 26 June, 6:00-9:00pm. The Union's press release follows: UNION is pleased to launch a new catalogue by Korean artist Sea Hyun Lee. Sea Hyun Lee’s paintings are a constant and obsessive shuffling of recurring fragments. His unmistakable series of landscapes are rendered in delicate but pervasive washes of red - large swaths of unmarked white meandering between islands of crimson land. The blank spaces are harshly set against the carefully detailed fragments ...
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