LEE Seung-Jio

Nucleus

solo show

May 26, 2017 - June 30, 2017

hong kong

50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG

press release

152 people attended the opening.
1 090 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 25 days.
Daily average 44 visitors per day including opening, 39 per day excluding opening.

Perrotin Hong Kong is pleased to present “Nucleus”, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong dedicated to the late Korean artist Lee Seung-Jio (Yong-Cheon, 1941-Seoul, 1990). The exhibition will feature Lee’s “Nucleus” series, which had been his main theme for his œuvre, and traces his artistic development. Lee Seung-Jio was a leading figure among the founding members of the Origin group founded in 1962 by young painters in their 20s from the Painting Department at Hongik University. In the path of Korean modern art, it is worthwhile to note that young artists set out to reject abstract expressionism’s legacy of the previous generation represented by Art Informel. Origin sought for a return to a clear, simple and basic formative language of art, and the primary roots of painting. Thus, ‘Geometric Art’ emerged in Korean modern art for the first time. […] Yeon Shim Chung