Royal Museums Belgium exhibit Lee Ufan

Thursday, 10 April 2008 00:52

Brussels, Belgium - The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium will open an exhibit of works of art made by Lee Ufan through June 29. Lee Ufan was born in 1936 in South-Korea. He received a traditional education including the learning of calligraphy, poesy and painting. At Tokyo, in the fifties he is one of the founders of the Mono-Ha (« School of Things ») which recommends a minimal style and the exclusive use of elements of natural origin.
 
Those principles are expressed in the « Correspondences » serie, initiated at the end of the eighties : the painter limits his action to the application of wide marks of a brush dipped into pigments and oil on a white background. His sculptures only comprise a mere stone on which a heavy steel plate is affixed. The artist doesn’t modify the one neither the other ; he only interferes to put them together : « A trite metal plate could be a thought. The vague stones could be the air. The resonance space of the work enlarged, vibrating all around ».

The Museum Scupture Gallery

Opened in 1992, these fine vaulted rooms highlight a collection of around 150 small and medium-sized works. Terracotta is well represented: baroque sketches with religious inspiration from the 17th and 18th centuries, exceptional classic sculpting by Gilles-Lambert Godecharle at the end of the 18th century, neo-classical studies from the studio of Mathieu Kessels who died in 1836, picturesque subjects made with the fine touch of Léopold Harzé a little after the middle of the 19th century. Also on display is a collection of statuettes carved from the ivory presented by Léopold II to Belgian sculptors, as well as Genius with Lilies by Julien Dillens.

This gallery also has a chronological display of most of the sculptors exhibited in the other rooms of the Museums of Ancient Art and Modern Art.

Visit The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium at : www.fine-arts-museum.be/