A Walk Between Nature and Culture (Pangyo, Korea)
Year: 2006
Edition: Unique
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Framed: No
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This site-specific installation, titled "Orange Sun," was created by Korean abstract artist Kyong Lee for the 2006 International Art Fence Design Invitational Exhibition. The project, themed "A Walk Between Nature and Culture," was commissioned by the Korea Land Corporation for a development site in Pangyo, South Korea. The initiative utilized temporary construction fences as a canvas for high-level artistic intervention, turning a utilitarian boundary into a monumental landscape.
Artistic Vision & Technique
The artwork consists of a digital drawing applied to a fence measuring 3m x 30m (90 m²). In this work, Lee depicts an orange-colored sun rising between a deep blue sea and sky. The composition is specifically designed for the perspective of a viewer in motion, such as someone passing by in a car.
Lee explored the concept of "fleeting vision", considering which fragments of an image remain in the mind when passed at high speed. By constructing the landscape with fragmented, energetic lines and saturated color, she invites viewers to mentally reconstruct the scene, leaving a lasting impression of vibrant orange light against the horizon.
Context & Execution
Exhibited from June 8 to July 8, 2006, this project demonstrates Lee's ability to bridge the gap between human civilization (the urban construction site) and the natural world (the abstracted sunrise). Her multidisciplinary approach, combining digital tools with her signature sensitivity to color and atmospheric state, transforms an ephemeral structure into a contemplative experience of space and light.
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Kyong Lee is a Korean abstract artist whose work reconciles physical and emotional realities through a multi-disciplined exploration of color, material, process and form. She lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
Education
Lee received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hong-ik University in Seoul, Korea, in 1991. She earned her Masters Degree from the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2000.
From 2001-2002 she was the Artist in Residence at the internationally well known SSamzieSpace Studio Residence Program, Seoul, Korea.
Technique
Lee is dedicated to precision in her processes. She meticulously plans her color choices and dedicates a fixed amount of time to the mixing of each color. To create her gradated color paintings, she first layers tape in strips across the surfaces. Each layer of paint is applied over a fixed time span and allowed to rest for another fixed amount of time. This is a process of building up, layering, accumulating. The gradations express relationships between colors and moments. Some of her paintings feature text. For these works, Lee embosses the word she has selected for the piece into the surface first then applies a monochromatic hue that correlates to, and collaborates with, the chosen word. The color occupies the word and fills all of the space around it. For Lee, process is poetic, and essential to the meaning of the work.
Inspiration
In her work, Lee is responding to her emotional experiences within her physical surroundings. Color is her primary visual language. For her, color is not only self-referential. Color also relates to emotional states. It is a way of expressing feeling, of projecting thoughts, and of evoking the natural processes of life. Lee is inspired by the flow of time and the layering of experiences. She contemplates memory and the ways her vision of the past changes with the accumulation of time. She is also interested in automatism. Through unconscious processes she has made connections between different ways of communicating, such as associating specific words with particular hues in her Color as Adjective series. Additionally, Lee is concerned with the tilt of the planet on its axis. Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees, a condition which causes us to experience the seasons in the way that we do. Lee wonders if there is a correlation here between our false assumption that we are standing horizontally and other assumptions we make, such as our assumptions about, as she says, "the horizon of emotions."
Collections
Work by Lee is in multiple public and institutional collections, including that of the Seoul Museum of Art, the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Seoul, Korea. Wells Fargo recently acquired 16 of her artworks for its corporate collection.
Exhibitions
Work by Lee Kyong has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Korea and Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Color as Adjective II in Chonan, South Korea, and Feeling, Language and Color in Seoul.
Galleries
Gallery Choi, Seoul
Metagallery Laluna
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