The imposing and futuristic art of Lee Bul

March 29, 2021 at 05:35 p.m.

 

Lee Bul is one of the most important Korean artists of her generation for the provocative, thoughtful and gigantic works that creates.

The multidisciplinary artist, because she performs performance, sculpts, paints and makes installations, is internationally known for giving life to large sculptures, cyborgs and materialize majestic utopian landscapes.

The Lee Bul It began in the 90s when she made her first artistic works in which she masterfully captured the emotional impact that the fact that her parents had been persecuted for being dissidents of the military dictatorship of Park Chung-Hee, in Korea, had left on her. from the south.

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From that moment on, Bul decided to tackle complex issues for humanity, such as inequality, in addition to the implications of technology in the contemporary world.

Upon completing his studies at Hongik University in 1987, Lee Bul devoted himself fully to the art world. The first thing he did was perform on the streets of Japan and Korea, and then he began to experiment with sculptures.

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Lee Bul's works in the 90s basically focused on just one thing: the human body and its relationship to beauty, life, death, and technology.

In 1997 his tongue-in-cheek series Cyborg was born, which examines the human desire for a perfect body.

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As of 2000, Lee Bul put aside the body to begin to dissect people's desires and for this he used various resources such as architecture, sculpture, drawing and installations.

As time went by, the artist began to experiment with various materials, which resulted in gigantic and beautiful installations that give rise to reflection on utopian ideals and everything that seems unattainable but that Lee Bul can materialize and share with viewers.

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