LeeEu removes all figurative elements to focus on the materiality of the medium. The artist invites us to a sensitive and highly pictorial experience. We stroll through the fundamentals of painting: gesture, material, color. Sometimes the fleeting image of moss, of furrows dug by the wind. But soon, pure pictoriality takes over in the pleasure of colors and the overflow of elusive materials moved by an internal and mysterious movement. It was during her time as a fine arts major student at Hongik University (Seoul) from which she graduated in 1999, that she learned from the great masters of Dansaekhwa, a Korean non-figurative painting movement born in the 1970s. LeeEu’s love for the fine arts was cultivated and fostered through this experience and is still prominent in her work today. She arrived in France in 2003 and attended the school of decorative arts (École des Arts Décoratifs) in Strasbourg. In 2007, a diploma in hand, she entered a 16 months residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Having these new experiences, as well as encountering artistic movements such as Supports/Surfaces, allowed the artist to broaden her artistic horizons.

Lee Eu’s Matières series. This series, which the artist began working on in 2012, comprises abstract paintings of acrylic and media on canvas. A regular rippling pattern composed of crests and troughs of wavy lines mixed arbitraily with irregular cloud-like shapes or serpentine patterns, making it difficult to distinguish between the crest and the trough. Given that we define a pattern as “a repeated arrangement on a surface”, her Matières series can easily be qualified as a “patterned abstraction” in that it creates a continuous rhythm by repeating the same shapes, both structured and unstructured. We must bear in mind that the material aspect of painting outweighs its nature of simulacrum (simulacre) in artist Lee Eu’s “patterned abstractions”, as we can see in the title ‘Matières’. She deliberately chooses to focus on the materiality of the paint rather than its ability to create an illusion of reality. 

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