His mother's hometown, Jeongok's barn, the smell of soil, and the smell of grass are captured in the work.
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| ▲ 40-year-old Doo-won self-portrait, 38.5x51cm, mixed materials on wool, 2022 Courtesy of Mac Gallery |
The seventh solo exhibition of Lee Doo-Won, who has traveled the world alone and has been working on the basis of inspiration from the materials and nature found there, was held at Gallery MAC in Busan, South Korea on the 8th.
Lee Doo-won, born in 1982, is an artist without formal art education at university. Instead, he traveled the world alone and unfolded his own unique world of art based on the materials he obtained there, his emotions, experiences, and inspiration from nature.
He received various artistic influences as a child from his father, an oriental painter, his mother, who worked in fashion, and his aunt, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts University of France. For him, painting was perhaps a part of life and play.
He called himself a living artist, saying, “Painting is an instinct, not a science or technique.”
Gallery MAC, who planned this exhibition, made his first relationship with Lee Doo-Won in 2013. This 10-year relationship led to Lee Doo-won's seventh exhibition, 'Doo-won, 40-year-old Temptation'.
Gallery MAC said, "This exhibition will show how much Lee Doo-won has grown over the past 10 years, whom he first met at the age of 30.“
“I am 40 years old, but a world full of temptations is always fun,” says Lee Doo-Won. 'Doo-won, 40-year-old Temptation' exhibition will be held from October 8 (Sat) to 30 (Sun).
“I am 40 now, but I am always interested and curious about the world, and living in the world is fun. Even if you just lie still, you will have to go on a trip the day after tomorrow. I'm very lazy, but some force pushes me here and there. This exhibition will make you think about what good work is. Jeongok, where my mother is, I worked next to my mother, who is her hometown, in an old barn, listening to the smell of dirt, grass, and the sound of rain.”
Lee Doo-Won (preparing for a solo exhibition in 2022)
October 08 (Sat), 2022 - October 30 (Sun)
Gallery MAC (2nd floor, 162, 117beonna-gil, Dalmaji-gil, Haeundae-gu, Busan)
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| ▲ Meditation on a new chair, 41x53cm, mixed materials on Korean paper, 2022 Courtesy of Mac Gallery |
RESIDENCY
2019 Damso Art Studio (Jeju)
2014 Space Yeongcheon Art Studio (Yeong-cheon)
2011 Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio (Jeju)
2010 Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio (Jeju)
Solo Exhibitions (17 Times)
2022 Doowon The forty years old Temptation (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2021 Lee Doo Won Solo Exhibition (Kimreeaa Gallery, Seoul)
2020 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2018 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2017 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2016 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2015 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2015 (Daon gallery, Seoul)
2014 (kimreeaa gallery, Seoul)
2013 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2013 (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2013 (Han Keesook Gallery, Daegu)
2011 (Han Keesook Gallery, Daegu)
2011 (Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio, Jeju-island)
2010 (Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio, Jeju-island)
2009 (3 Story, Seoul)
2008 (Gallery Sogool, Seoul)
Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs
2022 KIAF Seoul (COEX, Seoul)
2022 10-200, Happy painting exhibition (Gallery Mac, Busan)
2022 ART BUSAN (BEXCO, Busan)
2022 Galleries Art Fair (SETEC, Seoul)
2021 KIAF Seoul 2021 (COEX, Seoul)
2021 10-100, Happy painting exhibition (Gallery Mac, Busan)
2021 ART BUSAN (BXCO, Busan)
2021 Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
2020 ART BUSAN (BEXCO, Busan)
2020 KIAF Seoul 2020 (Online)
2020 BAMA (BEXCO, Busan)
2020 10-100, Happy Paintings (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2020 (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
2020 Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
2019 Daegu Art Fair (EXCO, Daegu)
2019 ART BUSAN (BEXCO, Busan)
2019 Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
2019 Korean Eye 2020 Teaser (Saatchi Gallery, London)
2018 ART JEJU 2018 (Jeju)
2018 KIAF Seoul 2018 (COEX, Seoul)
2018 START KOREAN EYE (Saatchi gallery, London)
2018 10-100, Happy Paintings (Gallery MAC, Busan)
2018 ART BUSAN (BEXCO, Busan)
2018 Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
2016 Affordable Art Fair (Milano, Italy)
2015 Spring Art Shopping (Lotte Gallery, Seoul)
2014 Hello Ulsan (Hyeondai Gallery, Ulsan)
2014 India Delhi Contemporary Art Fair (Delhi)
2014 Art Gwangju (Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju)
2014 HONG KONG CONTEMPORARY 14 (Hong Kong)
2012 Beautiful Star (Beyond Museum, Seoul)
2012 Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio 3ndresidentsgroupexhibition
2011 the Gift of Nature ((Lee Joong-seop Art Museum, Jeju)
2010 Lee Joong-seop Creative Studio 2ndresidentsgroupexhibition
2010 Dreaming Nomad 5 Young Artists (Lee Joong-seop Art Museum, Jeju)
2010 Focusing Local Part 1; Jeju Island (The K Gallery, Seoul)
2008 Annaaugstaein Fine Arts in Berlin
2007 And Write 5 artists (Gallery Sogool, Seoul)
etc.
Award
2013 Gallery Mac Award
2011 Honorary Teacher of Art by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lee Jung Seop Art Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, PCA(Parallel Contemporary Art), etc.
Artist Statement
Lee Doo-won works with his experiences and the emotions he feels at any time regardless of wherever he is during his travels around the world and with inspiration and materials he finds in nature. He works with his vision of the universe where nature, animals, and humans are one. He suffers from panic attacks and needs to take medicine to get on a plane, but leaves for a new country again and again. He is driven by longing for new, strange, and more ‘lively’ materials. To him, the canvas is a dead, overly-processed background. He looks for less-processed, natural that seem to be alive and breathe in countries like Pakistan, Nepal, and India, and constantly researches novel materials.
