Lee Bul

30 Mar-13 May 2023

PV 29 Mar 2023, 6-8pm

Lee Bul, Perdu CLXVIII, 2023, Mother of pearl, acrylic paint on wooden base panel, stainless steel frame. Credit: Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.

Overview

I choose what I work with very carefully. Everything has connotations, stories, and I utilise them. I borrow the general meanings materials have and embrace them in my work.

— Lee Bul

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents paintings from Lee Bul’s Perdu series for the first time in the UK, including new works created especially for the exhibition. Conceived as single and multi-panel works, these sumptuous mother-of-pearl and acrylic paintings exemplify the artist’s practice by bringing together past, present and future temporalities through the materials and references they incorporate. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in the UK since her landmark retrospective Crashing at the Hayward Gallery, London in 2018.
 

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