Seung-taek Lee
Seung-taek Lee has an innovative and diverse practice that often questions established political, social and artistic values. Lee’s art has been linked to a host of ailments in the context of cultural consciousness and rupture between the real and the traditional in Korean culture, which has been transformed by the influx of information about Western art during the adoption of Western civilization of the Orient in 20th century. Much of Lee’s paintings, sculptures, and environmental intervention share a kinship with both American land art and Korean shamanic traditions and embraces chance and ephemerality in its attempts to form a collaborative partnership with natural phenomena such as fire, water, wind, and smoke. And this Non-materializations or also known as ‘Non-Sculpture’, ‘Anti-Concept’ is the essential concept of Lee’s artwork and the current phenomenon that has appeared in contemporary art. Lee used these non-materialistic and non-sculptural concepts as a manifestation of his rejection of existing ideas and orders, meaning that his work had no relation with any sculptural concept whose initial goal was plasticity. It is evident in his work,
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