Relatum - Response (for Situation Kunst), 2004

Two steel plates (400 x 300 x 10 cm each, weight approx.

10 t each), two boulders, Ø approx.100 cm each

 "Art is poetry, criticism and something transcendental at the same time. [...] Emptiness in an artifact implies the space of events that opens up by the encounter of the self with the others."

Lee Ufan

Relatum”, 2000 and “Correspondence”, 2006

Steel plate (240 x 300 x 1 cm) and boulder (58 x 88 x 60 cm)

Oil and pigment on canvas, 163 x 194 cm

Born 1936 in Korea.

1970 started the series Relatum.

1971 he represented Korea at the 7th Biennale in Paris.

1973 started the series From Points and From Lines.

1986 became professor at the Tama Art University in Tokyo.

1991 started the series Correspondence.

1997 visiting professor at the Ecole National Supérieure de Beaux-Arts (Paris).

2001 Won the Praemium Imperiale award.

Lives and works in Japan and Paris, France