Lee Kang-So Korea, b. 1943
Born in Daegu and studying at Seoul National University of Arts, Lee Kang-So has led experimental art in the history of contemporary Korean art. Since the 1970s, Lee has been working across genres including installation, performance, photography, video, printmaking, painting, and sculpture.
It expresses the nature of natural life on a screen that crosses between painting and calligraphy, conception and abstraction with free and rough brush strokes, making it easier for the audience to accept it. Ducks, pears, and deer, which often appear in his paintings, do not artificially design figures, but draw them according to the senses of hands and natural breaths, excluding active thinking. Lee Kang-So does not want to express anything specifically but wants the audience to imagine and understand his intuition and play.
