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Vazieux Art Gallery participated for the second time at Kiaf SEOUL with a group show dedicated to young and established Korean and European artists.

Lee Ung-no was one of the most prominent Asian painters of the 20th century. Having begun his career in Korea and Japan, he abandoned traditional art and shifted to abstraction, thus playing a pioneering role in the foundation of contemporary Korean art.

In 2007, a museum entirely devoted to his works was inaugurated in Daejeon (KR). 

Interview with Ahryun Lee for Marie-Claire Maison Korea.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH YOUJIN YI

I was introduced to Youjin Yi’s work at “Drawing Now Art Fair, le salon du dessin contemporain” at the Wooson Gallery stand (Daegu, South Korea). I spoke to the artist and expressed my interest. A few days later, looking again at his works on the Internet, I opened my mind and waited for a clue…

On the occasion of the Printemps Asiatique (Asia Week Paris), ACA project presents a selection of contemporary artists whose work concentrate on a specific material: paper, painting, ceramics, photography, textile and wood. Young-se Lee (b.1956, South Korea) is an artist based near Paris. Drawing on his heritage, both thematically and technically, he approaches nature through plants, water, rock, earth or bark. These are revealed in his work by using Hanji paper, a mulberry paper, through a textured and creative play.

This report brings live coverage of Art Basel Hong Kong, Art SG, Art Fair Tokyo, Taipei Dangdai, and Art Busan.

Masks, self-portraits, disturbing figures and hybrid creatures are all visual embodiments of his work. The artist weaves his masks on a skeleton of needles to form faces with a network of crossed threads. He models his portraits after splitting them and assembling them with foreign parts. He mixes soft materials such as wool and feathers. But also transparent resins to harden them, before superimposing them to create increasingly solid volumes.

“The gallery specialises in artists from the Asian diaspora living in Europe and the U.S. I have studied in depth the first generation of Taiwanese artists, who are considered pioneers of Chinese abstraction, such as Chuang Che and Fong Chung-Ray. “

For its first participation in Art Busan, Galerie Vazieux is pleased to present a group show dedicated to established and emerging Korean and European artists : Lee Ung-no, Young-se Lee, Ahryun Lee, Kim Cheonae, Fadia Hadad and Constanze Deutsch.

Galerie Vazieux is pleased to present a group show dedicated to established and emerging Korean and European artists: Lee Ung-no, Young-se Lee, Ahryun Lee, Kim Cheonae, Fadia Hadad and Constanze Deutsch. Lee Ung-no (1904-1989) is one of the most prominent Asian painters of the twentieth century who played a pioneering role in the foundation of contemporary Korean art. Exhibited for the first time, these artworks have been selected by the gallery and the artist’s family and come from the family estate.

Stanley William Hayter, born in London at the dawn of the twentieth century, was one of the leading exponents of British surrealism. He was one of the main representatives of British surrealism. He settled in Paris and then moved away from figuration, prefiguring abstract expressionism.
Proposed by the curator Agnès Thiébault, an exhibition presents some twenty of his paintings at the Vazieux gallery, which is organizing a conference on the artist on May 11 at 6 pm.

The exhibition Colour in Motion immerses visitors in the heart of the expressive, innovative, and dynamic world of the English painter and engraver Stanley William Hayter. Intended as a retrospective, the exhibition retraces his incredibly long career as a painter during the twentieth century, spanning the movements of surrealism, abstract expressionism, and kinetic art. Throughout his life, Hayter was an innovative artist and was involved in precursory movements, while retaining his passion for colour and line. Considered one of the greatest engravers of his century, his painted oeuvre, which is just as colossal, is still relatively unknown to the general public. This unique exhibition pays tribute to this prominent artist.

Despite a day of strike and burning garbage cans, smiles were in the air in the aisles of Drawing Now, which declared 18,000 visitors for this 16th edition, almost regaining its pre-Covid attendance, helped by its usual spring dates and benefiting from the visit of the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak. (…) It was also the first time for the young Dupin gallery, which opened last July in Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes near Cancale and which had its first fair there, delighted to meet the Parisian players in the art world, or for the Vazieux gallery with a solo show of oils on tracing paper by Sarah Jérôme, or for the Binome gallery, which came to take up the challenge of showing Corinne Mercadier, an artist on the border between drawing and photography.

The galleries participating in Drawing Now come from all over the world, from Geneva (Analix Forever) to Oakland (Creative Growth), from Copenhagen (Formation Gallery) to Bologna (Studio G7) and 30% of them are participating for the first time. The origin of the creators is even more international since the galleries represent many foreign artists. Nearly half of the artists exhibited this year are women artists such as Sarah Jérôme at Sabine Vazieux or Cyrielle Gulacsy at Anne-Sarah Bénichou.

Chuang Che, a great pioneer of Chinese abstraction, mixes bright colors, turbulence of forms, transparency and material effects in his abstract landscapes. From this improbable chaos emerges a perfect harmony, full of joy and melancholy, from which emanates a limitless freedom.

At 97, Park In-kyung presents her first solo show at the Vazieux gallery, with around twenty inks on paper, which the Korean-born artist still produces daily.

Born in 1926 in Seoul, Park In-kyung is today the oldest Korean artist living in France. She embodies the pioneering spirit of the compatriots of her generation.

From his exposure to international art, Chuang Che created what he calls a “third way”. He materializes it by mixing oil, water and sometimes acrylic, which produces transparency effects.

The “Chaotic Harmony” exhibition brings together around twenty artworks produced from the 1960s
to the present day. It reflects the singular energy that emanates from the abstract landscapes of
Chuang Che, and his aesthetic research on the fusion between East and West.

Like Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun, Chuang Che renewed traditional Chinese painting by adopting
abstraction from the end of the 1960s. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of his generation.

Galerie Vazieux is presenting a unique exhibition at Kiaf SEOUL, ‘The Three Lees, A Korean Saga’. The booth of Galerie Vazieux is surrounded by the works of artist couple Lee Ung-noand Park In-kyung, and their son, Young-sé Lee, who is also an artist.

Gallery Vazieux’s survey of works by Lee Ungno dating from the 1960s to the 1980s presents an artist who, in his long career spanning most of the 20th century, shifted in his use of ink between abstraction and figuration and constantly reinvented it as a modern medium.