Sanggyun Lee maintained an interest in the image of civil buildings through field research and transformed these three-dimensional architectures or places on the canvas. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 2017 and earned a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the graduate institution. When he was a child, his father worked in the civil engineering field, hence he is said to be searching for a connection to his works and father. Images of structures that emerge in work are abstracted by reducing them to a certain structural framework. Among the spaces where urbanisation is desired by humans, the desire to acquire subjectivity and spatiality captures the immobility of civil construction sites as an observer monitoring the process. He also applies on-site tools such as Hera, plastering knife, and ink rope to paintings with a construction mindset.

“Signboards” is one of the works relating to artificial constructions with distinct aesthetic features from those of nature, displaying geometric and linear structures in contrast to the organic and ecological curves of nature. The artist was fascinated by large concrete buildings that traverse natural landscapes, including embankments, tunnels, and bridges. He has proceeded to abstract architectural structures on planes by reducing them to pieces that make up structural frameworks. Built to artificially control the flow of nature, these facilities have a stout and massive appearance, with a practical framework that lacks aesthetic elements distinct from those of large cities. Photographs taken at diverse locations serve as a portal for the artist to transfer reality into the flat world of painting. Using this method of working, he produces a painting universe with a reality-independent phase, a space for images that are not entirely based on physical reality. 

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