Lee Ufan Arles
Created by the artist Lee Ufan, who has been attached to Arles since an exhibition in 2013, Lee Ufan Arles opened in April 2022. This art center, located in a mansion dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, presents historical and recent works by the artist, and also offers a program of temporary exhibitions as well as artistic and cultural activities.
The works of Lee Ufan, painter, sculptor, poet and philosopher born in Korea in 1936, act as revelations. They draw attention to materials, to emptiness or to the distance between two elements, to reflections and shadows: everything that we may not have seen at first glance, and yet which is part of the work of art.
His sculptures, which he calls Relatum, are the result of "encounters": for example between a natural material (stones, linen, ...), an industrial material forged by man (steel plates, glass ...) and a space. His paintings, sometimes worked in series over several decades, are also the support of reflections on time, on gesture, on the relationship between the full and the empty. Personal expression has faded into a regularly renewed quest for infinity.
Created by the artist Lee Ufan, who has been attached to Arles since an exhibition in 2013, Lee Ufan Arles opened in April 2022. This art center, located in a mansion dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, presents historical and recent works by the artist, and also offers a program of temporary exhibitions as well as artistic and cultural activities.
The works of Lee Ufan, painter, sculptor, poet and philosopher born in Korea in 1936, act as revelations. They draw attention to materials, to emptiness or to the distance between two elements, to reflections and shadows: everything that we may not have seen at first glance, and yet which is part of the work of art.
His sculptures, which he calls Relatum, are the result of "encounters": for example between a natural material (stones, linen, ...), an industrial material forged by man (steel plates, glass ...) and a space. His paintings, sometimes worked in series over several decades, are also the support of reflections on time, on gesture, on the relationship between the full and the empty. Personal expression has faded into a regularly renewed quest for infinity.
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Lee Ufan Arles
5 rue Vernon, 13200 Arles
+33 (0)9 78 07 83 26
www.leeufan-arles.org
Tuesday to Sunday (every day from July to September), 10am-6pm (10am-7pm from July to September).
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