“The Tourist – Image Architect series”, which started in 2020 and has lasted into 2021, expose the place he observed on the canvas by transforming the daily photographs taken into abstract paintings. The artist used a picture collage to cover and erase the space by adding color and geometric shapes on an empty area, leaving behind the place where he was simultaneously gazing. Matière and its texture, which are thickly applied on black and white images, conceal and disclose parts of a certain space beyond the artist’s painting attempts, thus stacking the artist’s sense of space in memory and the duration of the process.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Acrylic and photo-collage on canvas
- Size
- 91 cm x 91 cm
- Year
- 2022
- Signature
- Hand-signed and dated by artist, back
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
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Heejoon Lee creates abstract paintings from images of the natural world. In 2012, he earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Sculpture from Hongik University, and a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Glasgow School of Art in 2014. In this way, the artist collects, edits, and brushes the accumulated experiences and daily images obtained from travels from close surrounding to distinct locations, and incorporated them into geometric shapes. The composed instant images add the texture and time of the accumulated paint to generate a new space on the canvas. In addition to the photo collage and thick matière geometric shapes in <The Tourist> in 2020, the artist shifts his focus from minor objects to the surrounding landscape and extends the visual experience beyond abstract painting to the experience of space in which architecture and painting coexist.
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Go to gallery page →“The Tourist – Image Architect series”, which started in 2020 and has lasted into 2021, expose the place he observed on the canvas by transforming the daily photographs taken into abstract paintings. The artist used a picture collage to cover and erase the space by adding color and geometric shapes on an empty area, leaving behind the place where he was simultaneously gazing. Matière and its texture, which are thickly applied on black and white images, conceal and disclose parts of a certain space beyond the artist’s painting attempts, thus stacking the artist’s sense of space in memory and the duration of the process.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Acrylic and photo-collage on canvas
- Size
- 91 cm x 91 cm
- Year
- 2022
- Signature
- Hand-signed and dated by artist, back
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
Shipping & taxes+
- Ships from the gallery's location (set per work, defaults to the gallery address)
- Cost calculated at checkout by destination
- Optional full insurance in transit
- Usually ships within 10 business days, fine-art packed
- In-person pickup available for some works (no shipping fee)
- Listed price may include VAT applicable in the seller's country or the work's place of shipment
- Duties, import VAT/GST, customs fees, and other taxes in the buyer's country are not included and are the buyer's responsibility
- These are assessed by the destination customs authority and billed separately by the carrier
- Sales tax may be added at checkout depending on jurisdiction
