Lee Hyein: 7 Stages

About the exhibition

Lee Hyein has long painted outdoors, setting down a place on the canvas together with the artist's own body and the time spent there. In 7 Stages, curator Kim Sung Woo writes, Lee steps back from painting landscapes in front of the motif and turns to painting itself, the medium that has always stood between artist and subject.

Places are translated into scenes formed by memory and experience stored in the body. Each becomes what the curator calls a choreographic stage, generating its own rhythmic sense of place.

Primary Practice now occupies a basement space in Buam-dong, on the same street as the Seoul Museum, so the two can be seen in one trip. The show is supported by Arts Council Korea.

About the artist

Lee Hyein studied painting at Seoul National University (BFA 2005, MFA 2007). According to the artist's CV, solo shows include the Daegu Art Museum (2013), Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2013) and Doosan Gallery New York (2015), and Lee received the SongEun Art Prize in 2007. Works are held by MMCA and the Daegu Art Museum.

Sources: Primary Practice: 7 Stages