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Maelee Lee
GENESIS
Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos
19.04.2022 > 28.06.2022
Galleria San Polo, San Polo 387, 30125, Venezia (VE).
Opening: 19th April h. 6 pm
Live performance by Lee h. 7 pm
Galleria San Polo is pleased to present the exhibition Genesis, by South Korean artist Lee Maelee (1963, Republic of Korea), curated by the Asian art’s specialist and internationally known curator, based in New York, Thalia Vrachopoulos, which will open on Tuesday 19 April at 18.00- with a live performance of the artist at 19.00- until 28 June 2022.
Genesis was born from Lee's artistic research, focused on the deeper issues concerning the human being and history and everything related to existence and being and wants to represent a medium between the past, the present and the future.
The exhibition collects a set of thirty-six paintings, made by transcribing in 24k gold dust phrases from the Genesis of the Bible and other non-Christian religious sources, as the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, translated into different languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English and Korean.
The installation also includes a sound component, consisting of recorded voices that recite pieces of texts from traditions of different countries, the fusion of painting, word and voice creates an immersive and synaesthetic experience, thanks to which the visitor, following the arrangement circular paintings along the walls, also experiences the circumambulation linked to the Buddhist ritual of going around the pagoda.
Genesis has the intent to investigate human existence in continuous evolution and the endless cycle of birth and death to which everything must undergo. The texts that the artist transcribes can be assimilated to a sort of vehicle of collective memory, to transmit the past to posterity.
Lee Maelee, tackles issues related to existence, being and becoming, to the point of expanding his research to the theme of the origin of Man, with a great creative inspiration.
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GENESIS
by Lee Mae Lee
19.04.2022 > 28.06.2022
CURATOR
Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
OPENING
19 April 2022 h. 18
With live performance by the Artist
VENUE
Ruga Vecchia San Giovanni, Rialto, San Polo 387 – Venice
VISITING HOURS
From Tuesday to Sunday from 11 to 18
WEBSITE
www.leemaelee.works
PRESS OFFICE
FG Comunicazione – Venezia
Cristina Gatti
cristina.gatti@fg-comunicazione.it
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Maelee Lee - Biography
Born 1963, Gangjin, Republic of Korea. Lives and works in Gwang-ju (South Korea).
Education & Residencies:
2014. Visiting Artist Program' (Siena Art Institute-Siena, Italy)
2008 Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
1996 MFA, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
1986 BFA, Mokpo National University, Mokpo, South Korea
Solo Exhibitions: 2021-2011
2021 Poetry Delivery 2021 :PYO Gallery, Seoul , South Korea
2020 Poetry Delivery 2020 :The Muan Seungwoo oh Museum of Art, Muan, South Korea
Poetry Delivery 2020 :Sinsege gallery
2019 The Cantos’s Space, Woojaegill Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2017 Poetry Delivery 2017 : Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Mae-lee Lee : The Next Step, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, USA
2016 Mae-lee Lee : Expanding the Paradigm, Dononopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2015 Mae-lee Lee : Walking the Truth, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece
2014 Mae-lee Lee : On the Road to Wisdom, National Assembly Member’s Office Building 3F Public Space,
Seoul, South Korea
Mae-lee Lee : Open Studio, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italia
2013 Mae-lee Lee : Portraits of shoe-Where do we come from and where are we heading to?, Media
Cube 338,Gwangju, South Korea
Mae-lee Lee : Portraits of shoe, Eunam Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2012 Mae-lee Lee : Re-birth, Eunam Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2011 Mae-lee Lee : Infinite Space, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Mae-lee Lee : Dawn and Space, FEI Gallery, Guangzhou, China
Mae-lee Lee ; 2011 National Gwangju Museum and Contemporary Art, National Gwangju Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
Ruga Vecchia San Giovanni, Rialto, San Polo 387 – Venice
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