Lee Heum
Biography
Heun Lee
( born in 1984, Seoul, Korea )
Lee Heum's artworks show off abstract beauty, based on the realistic images of candies or cakes that he has been drawing. The individual forms of expressions are random, accidental patterns that do not bring up any particular images. They are drawings of certain shapes produced by computer programs rather than involving traditional canvas. Through this artwork, the artist wants to show that abstract painting is not only spontaneous work on canvas, but it is the idea itself that artists have in their mind. Therefore, some works are named 'Real Abstraction', a compound word of 'Realism' and 'Abstraction'. Lee Heum is particularly interested in 'drawing an abstract painting'. He implements certain shapes, created by his aesthetical senses, on the computer beforehand and then draws the products on the canvas. This process offers a different angle toward aesthetic standards, in that mechanized process and handcraft works that seem contradictory are place together. Have you ever thought about the fact that we are already accustomed to artificial senses? Most of the things we see are somewhat artificial. The images in the exhibition are to realize the fresh aesthetic shapes by distorting candy images that the painter had been working on.
Exhibitions selected
Solo exhibitions
2017 - Sweets, Sweeat, Kunstl, Seoul, Korea
2017 - Real + Abstraction, Gallery Sono felice, Gangwon, Korea
2017 - Real + Abstraction, The Gallery D_Geoje, Geoje, Korea
2016 - About beauty, Gallery Piu, Jeonju, Korea
2015 - Real Abstraction, Sooho Gallery, Korea
2012 - Lee Heum Solo Exhibition, Sooho Gallery, Korea
2011 - Lee Heum with Papa Bubble, Sooho Gallery, Korea
Groupe Exhibitions
2017 - Sweets Holic, Gallery Sinsegye, Daegu, Korea
2017 - Beyond the Limit, Posco Gallery, Pohang
2016 - Same Root another Branch, Gallery August house, Yangpyoung, Korea
2016 - Sooho Art Concert, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam
2016 - Bundang Art Fair, Korea
2015 - Sooho Art Concert, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2015 - I dream, Lotte world Mall, Seoul
2015 - Sense the Senses, Museum of Kyungpook national University, Daegu
2015 - Six senses, Gallery Piu, Jeonju
2015 - Sweet Story for 4N5, 4F Sinsegye, Seoul
2015 - GAP;, Gallery Seba & A Project, Seoul
2015 - Love, Bittersweet, Gallery Lottehotel & A Project, Seoul
2014 - Graduate show, chelsea College, London, UK
2014 - MA Autumn show, the Lewis PR Orbital Gallery, Loindon, UK
2012 - Tasteutopia, Lotte Gallery, Dae-jeon, Korea
2012 - Tasty Land, Yangpyung Art Museum, Yuangpyung, Korea
2011 - Heroes!, Gana art Busan
2011 - Color x Art x Play x lll, Goyang Oulim Nuri Arts center, Go-yang, Korea
2011 - Seoul Art exhibition - Hyper realism, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 - East inside West, AndrewShire Gallery, LA, USA
2011 - West inside East, Sooho Gallery, Korea
2010 - 706 Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 - Rainbow, Pocheon Banwoel Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
2010 - New Wave, Glallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
2010 - A delicious picture, Lotte Art Gallery, Korea
2009 - Digital Realism, Art Gate Gallery, NYC, USA
2009 - Digital Realism, Insa ast cednter, Seoul, Korea
2009 - 9-emotion, Dongwon gallery, Dea-gu, Korea
2009 - The Vision of Modern Art, Sejong Center, Korea
2009 - CH_R_I_ST_MAS_, Urban art, Seoul, Korea
2008 - Up to the minute, Koreaart gallery, Busan, Korea
2008 - New wave of realism, Mayjune gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art Projects
2017 - Spectrum_Wave, 168 stairs, Busan, Korea
2016 - Fluctuate, Sweet Terrace 4th, 168 stairs, Busan, Korea
Collections
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Daelim Museum, Seoul, Korea