Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce its inaugural booth A04 at KIAF Art Seoul 2019. The gallery, which opened its space in Seoul in 2017, will exhibit both Korean and international artists David Salle, Lee Bul, Kader Attia, Lari Pittman, and Angel Otero for its presentation at the fair. Los Angeles based artist Liza Lou, whose expansive exhibition, The River and the Raft, opens across two locations— Lehmann Maupin Seoul and the Songwon Art Center—on September 26, will also give an artist talk at the fair in the Talk Lounge in Hall B on September 26 at 11:00am.
Senior Director Emma Son, who heads the Seoul gallery, states, “There has been an incredible shift in the approach of Korean collectors in recent years. As the international art world became more interested in the work of Korean artists, the collectors here in turn began cultivating their own appreciation for artists from outside of Korea. This is an example of the crucial impact of cross cultural exchange that a fair like KIAF encourages. We at Lehmann Maupin are thrilled to be participating this year and highlighting our artists from Korea and beyond.”
Included in the presentation is Liza Lou’s Pannus which hangs about 175 beaded sheets in a large-scale grid, each from a single point, creating a sculptural wall relief of the draped cloths. Lou’s work can be interpreted as a meditation on labor and a process that welcomes variance and accident to illuminate repetition. Each work is unique due to subtle errors, flaws, and variations that occur because they are laboriously created by the human hand.
The gallery will also feature recent work by Korean artist Lee Bul, from her Perdu series. The artist will open an exhibition featuring this new body of work at Lehmann Maupin in New York in November. Lee Bul’s retro-futuristic imagery explores the space between organic and man-made material by creating intricate paintings composed of mother-of-pearl (a living organism), human hair, dried flowers, and acrylic shards adhered to velvet, leather, or silk surfaces. The resulting forms reveal the intrinsic tension that exists within utopian idealism, and the reality of its resulting ruin and fragmentation.