Maël Bellec

Young-sé Lee left Korea for France with his family when still very young. He began painting in the studio of his father, Ungno Lee, before going on to attend the Grande Chaumière and then the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While resolutely modern, his work is rooted in the Asian tradition in both thematic and technical terms. His primary source...

Shin Sung Hy's oeuvre stands at the crossroads of Korea and France, tradition and revolution, surface and body. Published to coincide with his Paris museum solo exhibition, this volume traces the artist's relentless effort to liberate painting from the flatness of the canvas. From early colour and surface explorations to the structural interventions of his final Nouage works, Shin systematically...