Installation view of Lee U-fan Sculpture Exhibition, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, January 10–26, 1985. Pictured: Four Relatum works (1984–85). Photo by Yamamoto Soroku, courtesy the artist and Tokyo Gallery1980
The Gwangju Democratization Movement, a nine-day popular uprising in Gwangju against President Chun Doo-hwan’s military dictatorship, is violently crushed by the South Korean army.
After a breakdown in the late 1970s, Lee begins to paint with loose, dynamic brushstrokes. This new approach will lead to two major series of works of the next decade, From Winds and With Winds.
Lee moves to Kamakura, a twelfth-century city near Tokyo, where he currently resides.
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