“PIECE” Installation view at Perigee Gallery ©Perigee Gallery Photo: Bae HansolFrom June 2 to July 29, Perigee Gallery, located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, will present PIECE, a solo exhibition by artist ByungHo Lee (b. 1976). The title of this exhibition, Piece, means a part, and through this exhibition, the artist aims to show the simultaneous circulation of one intact part and another.
Since the beginning of his work, the artist has viewed the human body as the object of his works, and he pursues a fluid sculpture that is constantly changing, away from sculptures that is not fixed in a specific meaning. The subject matter of his research begins with exploring and analyzing the human body form in various ways through a sculptural methodology.
In his exploration, the artist’s attention is drawn to the torso, especially the arms, legs, and head, which are separated from the body. The artist sees the separated and discarded parts as connected and separated, dependent and individual, and does not think of them as meaninglessly separated. He sees them as full sculptural objects that have the potential to be reassembled and reappear as something whole.
The works in this exhibition appear to be individual yet connected at the same time, changing shape depending on the viewer’s position and appearing abstract. ‘Part’ is an important theme in the artist’s work, and the multi-part works are selected and connected according to the artist’s intentions and senses, and show bizarre and uncanny sculptures.
In this exhibition, he also uses a variety of colors on the surface of his works. He used brushes to add and subtract color, scrape, and chisel away, working like a sculptor. Gauze is used to create new surfaces, and plaster is mixed with color pigments and painted, giving the impression of color from the outside penetrating into the inside or colors from the inside radiating out and detailed texture shows the effect of adding something.
