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lot 36

lot 36

Jeongwoong Lee

The Peak

oil on canvas
8 x 13 in. (21.5 x 33.5 cm.)
painted in 2015

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Estimate: US$ 2,000 - 3,000

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Pontone Gallery, London

Lee Jeong Woong focuses on recreating a Victorian style of painting yet manages to reflect his aestheticism into them. Just like Victorian aesthetics that dwell on elevated naturalism, Lee's canvases depict a mimetic representation but rely heavily on complex symbolism as part of his visual language.

Aspiring to recapitulate the consciousness of contemporary Koreans, he juxtaposes the symbology of Western ideals with Korean images to reflect the conundrum and complexity of this modern experience.

His experiments with discord results in imagery that lacks a sense of cohesiveness and borders on abstraction. 'His figures are collaged and not quite integrated within the same space, and they cannot represent any explicit narrative or theme despite his playing with the titles' (Lee Jeong Woong, Laputa, Pontone Gallery, exhibition catalogue, November 2015).

Jeongwoong Lee

(b.1982)
Korean artist, Jeongwoong Lee, was born in 1982 in Seoul. He graduated from Sungkyungkwan University in 2008, after which he exhibited extensively at home and abroad gaining commercial success at the art markets of Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, and his home country of South Korea. His first solo exhibition was 'Young Korean Painters', Pontone Gallery, London in 2014; after which he had another solo exhibition with Shine Artists in 2015, where he showed paintings on the subject of ‘Laputa’; and again in 2018 at the newly opened Pontone Gallery in London.