Part of Lee Ufan's 'From Line' series, begun in Tokyo in 1973, this painting (early 2000s) at the Busan Museum of Art is a late example of the Korean master's foundational language. A single vertical or horizontal stroke of saturated blue pigment, drawn in one long breath, gradually thins as the loaded brush empties — an inscription of a single passage of time on the canvas. A central figure of the Japanese Mono-ha movement and of Korean contemporary art since the 1970s, Lee reduces painting to an event of action, trace, and temporality; the Busan Museum of Art holds one of Korea's most significant concentrations of his work.

Exhibition Venue

Busan Museum of Art

Busan, South Korea