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*Revival of Cyberspace - Another canvas
The development of digital technology is expanding the width of expression by painters these days. The writer also have been absorbed in the current of the times and is living in the digital environment like breathing at every moment.
The period in which moving pictures could not be drawn......,
In old times, painters in the literary artist's style had no method to express flying birds or moving objects. So, they could not help putting things in a paused image drawing. Painters of impressionism clamored for changes of light depending on the change of morning, day and night, and went out of atelier holding a canvas. However, they only could put a temporary scene in the canvas. That was because they could not draw moving changes in it. Painters of futurism who advocated the aesthetics of moving speed were in the same situation. The futuristic painters endeavored to overcome the limit of plane by drawing afterimages. Finally, the effort of painters to express movements could be realized by the development of technology.
The age in which we are living is a period in which the digital technology has been developed. Painters in these days sometimes become a painter in the literary artist's style of the Chosun Dynasty era and sometimes Monet of impressionism, and draw moving pictures. In other words, they re-construe and express through digital tools that have been developed. They can express changes of light depending on time that could not be expressed by the painters in the literary artist's style of the Chosun Dynasty era and the painters of impressionism, by re-construing with digital. They take out and look at traces of history of our family lives and photographs of hometowns where you have lived, and think about those again. They recreate them by re-construing with a view of today and inform them with new life.
The writer would like to fertilize warm senses deeply located in human's mind by using cold digital - if possible - and give spiritual presents to people who visit art gallery.
- Lee-nam Lee’s Essay
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About Artist
Revival of a famous picture in cyberspace
Postmodernism's originality, in addition to its unique creative base, incorporates recent styles, techniques and contemporary methods of expression not the least of which is the use of cyberspace technological advancements. An easily identifiable aspect of postmodernism is the reworking of famous classical artworks, and the borrowing of partial segments of these images which reworks classical art to be more aligned with modern sensibilities.
This is the case with LEE, Lee Nam's latest work where he introduces new meaning, modification and movement to famous classical art. Rather than parody traditional works or assume a critical attitude towards the cultural reality of the day, he assimilates his views in an affirmative manner to create a new or different story. The kernel of his revised vision relies on the power of technology and movement.
LEE vests new and vital power into famous classical art by administering technological insertions, and by substituting realistic movement for potential movement of an image for viewing on a screen. His borrowings span past centuries to recent decades. He doesn't pursue far fetched or exaggerated changes but rather subtly conveys the impression his alterations are more an emphasis or extension of the original artist's intent.
Take, for example, Jan Vermeer van Delt's "Girl With A Pearl Earring" where he has added a single teardrop to the maiden's eye. That single tear drop empowers the original with a lyrical depth of sorrow felt by Vermeer van Delt and his servant in their hopeless love. The viewer directly experiences a subtle hyper-space-time transition that arouses heart felt sympathy for the impossibility of couple's love for each other. LEE's cyberspace embellishments can be further seen with a fly following the butterfly in Shinsaimdang's "Chochungdo", snow in KIM, Hong-do's "Mukjukdo", and a swimmer becoming a fish in Monet's pond all of which serve to heighten the impact of the artists' original images and introduce a new way of viewing the works.
LEE's creative approach through the hyper-space-time continuum can be likened to the medical act of a doctor arousing an unconscious patient from a physical surgical operation. The vitality of his art not only gives comment to the spirit of the original classical images but also revives them with new meaning and imbues them with contemporary commentary.
- Hee-rang Kim (Curator, Gwangju Museum of Art)
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Biography
Lee Lee-Nam
Born in Damyang County, Korea
E-mail : art2234@hanmail.net
Education
2005 Completed the Department of Visual Communication, Graduate School at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
1997 M.F.A., Graduate School at Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
1995 B.F.A. Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
10 times held in New York, Seoul, Gwangju
Group Exhibitions
200 times held
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Tokyo International Art Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
2007 NewYork Asian Contemporary Art Fair, NewYork, U.S.
2007 Shanghi E-art Festival, Shanghi, China
2007 Singapore International Art Fair, Singapore
2007 Pocheon Asian Biennale, Pocheon, Korea
2007 Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China
2007 Shanghi SH Contemporary, Shanghi, China
2007 Invited Exhibition by Hyundai department store, Seoul, Korea
2007 Invited Exhibition by Smithsonian Art Museum, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the U.S.A., Wachington D.C., U.S.
2007 Beijing International Art Fair, Beijing, China
2007 Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2007 NewYork International Art Fair, NewYork, U.S.
2007 The New Stream of Asia, ZKM, Germany
2007 Art & Play, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2007 100 Star Artists, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2007 Emotional Communication Through Digital, Ministry of Information and Communication of the Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea
2006 Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Public Collection
Office of the President, Republic of Korea
Geum-nam Road, Gwangju, Korea
Gwang-yang Art Center
Wolchul Moutain Sculpture Park, Young-am, Korea
Dam-yang University, Dam-yang, Korea
Korea Naional Open University, Seoul, Korea
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
The MAY 18 Memorial Foudation
KBS(Korea Broadcasting Syastem)
Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Gyeonggido, Korea
Gwangju City Hall, Gwangju, Korea
The Embassy of Republic of Korea in Germany
The Embassy of Republic of Korea in U.S.A.
Haenam Dinosour Museum, Haenam County, Korea
SK Head office, Seoul, Korea
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