viewing Room | Lee Ufan. With Winds, 1990

"When I passively accept external winds, an even greater world is opened." – Lee Ufan

Created at the pinnacle of the ‘With Winds’ era, this work exudes a vitality and charisma that characterized the works of this period. The strokes are chaotic here and changing their direction mid-way. It is visibly more frenzied and indefinable, calling on viewers to focus more on the metaphorical meaning of the work, which supplemented by artist's great oeuvre of theoretical writing.

Lee Ufan. With Winds, 1990 (details) © Gary Tatintsian Gallery and the artist

In 1989 Lee Ufan wrote: “How open the world, how suggestive […]! I want to enlarge and deepen the exchange with the exciting and stimulating outside world instead of soliloquizing and showing obedience to the dictatorship of expression”.