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Lee Ufan - Traces

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lee Ufan - Traces
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philippe Vergne
By (author) Beck Jee-Sook
By (author) Hans Ulrich Obrist
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:56
Dimensions(mm): Height 275,Width 210
Category/GenreIndividual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9782851173089
Audience
General
Illustrations 1 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cahiers d'art
Imprint Cahiers d'art
Publication Date 2 July 2020
Publication Country France

Description

Passionate about prints, Lee Ufan had, for many years, hoped to create an extremely long etching. He wanted to push horizontality to its limits. It was at Michael Woolworth's studio in Paris that he was able to realise this dream. Applying himself, with all his physical strength, to the hardness of the steel plates and the vastness of their length, he created two different works as two ways to explore an infinite trajectory. A hard bound leporello, augmented by a separate text in which the artist explains his unique approach, accompanies the project. Both vigorous and meditative, Lee Ufan's etchings are an invitation to let our gaze drift over the lines and become lost in the voids. Fading in front of his own work, the artist thus traces for us a path to the invisible.

Author Biography

Philippe Vergne is a French curator and director of the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum. Beck Jee-sook is director of the Seoul Museum of Art. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss art curator, critic and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London and co-editor of the Cahiers d'Art review.