Following the artist’s popular exhibition «Transposition» in the Baroque setting of the Diocesan Museum Freising, we are pleased to present recent works by Kyung-Lim Lee in a solo exhibition in Switzerland for the first time. In «Transposition II» we present the latest development of the artist’s vision, what was called in the museum catalogue text her «intensely visual and deeply metaphysical» abstraction.
The title underscores the significance of transposition in Lee’s artistic practice. It is key to her process of distilling ideas and linguistic elements including «The Ten Stroke Series» into images and to generating abstract compositions with boldly distinctive geometric forms suffused with meaning. Another hallmark of Lee’s work to consider in terms of her interest in transposition is her open approach to materials and mediums. This is seen in colorful drawings combining graphite, pastel and paint such as those comprising «The Four Seasons» that bring paintings to mind, and in black and white drawings with geometric forms with volumetric contours recalling sculpture.
