{"product_id":"lee-heedon","title":"Lee Heedon","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurning to abstract painting through close exchanges with artists such as Cho Yong-Ik — a member of the first generation of Korean abstract artists who played a pivotal role in the birth of Korean contemporary art — and Chung Chang-Sup, a leading figure of Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting), Lee Hee-Don is regarded as one of the most accomplished artists among the \"second generation of Dansaekhwa.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Hee-Don is often known simply as a Dansaekhwa artist, but closer examination of his work reveals a distinct aesthetic difference. Where the Dansaekhwa movement began from a Korean sense of beauty, sentiment, and unique textural expression that Western-style monochrome painting could not contain, Lee Hee-Don's work goes further — centering on the performative nature of the act of making itself. Through the repetition of physical action and its resulting \"accumulation,\" his paintings occupy a new position of meaning: an embodied record of temporality and exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticularly notable in his work is his use of dak (the raw fiber of traditional Korean paper) and a perforation technique for which he holds a patent. Made by soaking and blending mulberry-bark paper fibers, this material leaves a distinctive matière on the surface, over which he layers Korea's traditional five cardinal colors (obangsaek) — achieving an aesthetic that is at once distinctly Korean, refined and modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso central to his work is the worldview of inyeonsaenggi (因緣生起, the arising of all things through interdependent causes and conditions), the root of the Yeon (因緣) series he has pursued since the 1990s. The artist hopes his paintings will be read as \"a passage of the mind that awakens us to countless coexistences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810948215095,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/6054\/4823\/files\/0Q8A7520.jpg?v=1785735958","url":"https:\/\/beauxarts.kr\/products\/lee-heedon","provider":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","version":"1.0","type":"link"}