Won Lee

represented by The Loft Galeria

Won Lee is a Toronto-based sculptor and painter. Born in Korea and trained in fine arts in the United States and Canada, his work has been shown and commissioned in North America, Europe, and Asia. He is an ISC Professional Circle Member.

He is a lecturer of post modern art theories and practices a Luxun academy of Fine Art in Sheyang, China.
He is a member of Board of Trustees of Vermont Studio Centre (Vermont, U.S.A.) and a member of Board of Directors of Toronto School of Art (Toronto, Canada).

Artist's Statement

Won Lee
November 1, 2007

I would like to see the world in its naked vividness, ungrounded, immanent, outside of any system of signs-language, culture, history, politics etc.

Within the matrix of this system of representation of power, we are constricted to think and feel in their tyrannies.

As long as artists are engaged in “strategies” that are being played out within the coded and structured system of signs, it is impossible for us to take a flight to the unknown, uncoded world of chaos to bring back a breeze of fresh air in our art works.

In the process of art making, I would like to meet the objects as they are, freed from grounded common sense point of view or preconceived “concepts” as they come alive in their own terms exuding their own differences in the light of the moment, in their own immanent becoming.

Only outside of system of signs, the moment would bear all the past and all the future where death, freedom and primal desire take their flight to deteritorialize.

My work is about encountering every moment as it presents itself to me and materializing the singular moment’s difference in a sculptural form and then have the form exude its own intense difference, therefore, coming alive on its own and beckoning the viewer to join in the moment of eternity.



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