Lee Manna
Lee Manna's image is a persistently and tightly organized daily life. Everyday life, in which every moment of life disappears, is organized into a heavy and solid image, free from boredom and the lightness of being. The dynamism is extremely concentrated, and finally an image made of subtle changes in color and shading appears. It seems like an attempt to pile up things that are forgotten in everyday life and whose existence and meaning are marginalized. And in such a process, the minimum existential value that can affirm one's existence, the meaning of one's existence, is sought from within. The artist meticulously puts hard work into everyday life, objects, events, and his own senses as if building a tower of time. A new reality is constantly created, not constantly repeated, in the way that everyday life is firmly tightened with pressure bandages using countless repeated small colored surfaces and dense touches. A myriad of exciting events far from boredom gather and tangle. Time also builds up into thick surfaces. The real landscape is transformed into a psychological one. Then appears a metaphysical landscape that is as solid as a castle and a wall.
Lee Manna (b.1971)
2009 Meisterschüler, Braunschweig University of Art, Germany
2008 Diplom, Braunschweig University of Art, Germany
1996/2001 BFA/MFA in painting, Seoul National University, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Reflection -Youngeun Artist Relay Exhibition, Youngeun Museum, Kyunggi-do, Korea
2012 The Castle, Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 The Wayside, Tong–In Auction Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 The Wall, Gallery Godo, Seoul, Korea
2010 The Surface with Depth, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
2009 Heterotopia -Meisterschüler 2009, Studio Building 40/307 of HBK, Braunschweig, Germany
2004 always-already-there, Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Astehetics of Empathy, Sharing, and Coexistence, Youngeun Museum, Kyunggi-do, Korea
2013 The Inner Landscape, gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Space of Difference part1, gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea
2012 Korea Tomorrow, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 Out of Frame, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
2012 The Width of the Night, Keumsan Gallery, Heyri, Korea
2011 International Art Exhibition The Power of Art_人, Youngeun Museum, Kyunggi-do, Korea
2011 I recommend this artist, gallery soop, Seoul, Korea
2011 Between Techne and Metaphor, Artspace Hue, Paju, Korea
2010 Seogyo Nanjang2010-Power of Painting, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2010 ASYAAF2010 Special Exhibition, Sungshin University, Seoul
2010 Nature, becoming a scene, gallery chosun, Seoul, Korea
2009 Korean views–Faraway, So Close!, Stiftung Horizonte, Hannover, Germany
2008 excellent 08 - Die besten künstlerischen Arbeiten 2008 von HBK, Volkswagen Bank, Braunschweig, Germany
2008 Symposium Junge Kunst, Volksbank and Galerie Grabenheinrich, Gütersloh, Germany
2008 blank-a-med, mhh – Kestnerschau, arcade of medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2007 Art. Fair 21, Expo XXI, Köln, Germany
2007 Junge Kunst aus China-Japan-Korea, Galerie F92, Berlin, Germany
2007 ELF PLUS EINS, Galerie Haus Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 Wave, TOPOHAUS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Portfolio, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2004 2004 ART SEOUL, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003 BORA, Marronnier Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 BOUNCE human, civilization, environment, Gallery Chang, Seoul, Korea
2000 The other side, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Residency Programs & Awards
2013~11 Youngeun Museum Artist-In-Residence Program
2008 Symposium Junge Kunst, Gütersloh, Germany
