Seong-Gu Lee United Kingdom, South Korea, 1984

Obras
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 31
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 31
    Bronze
    63 x 31 x 18 cm
    24 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 7 1/8 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 27
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 27
    Bronze
    87 x 19 x 19 cm
    34 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 15
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 15
    Stainless steel and bronze
    108 x 108 x 54 cm
    42 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 21 1/4 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 10
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 10
    Bronze
    122 x 57 x 20 cm
    48 x 22 1/2 x 7 7/8 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 21
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 21
    Bronze
    75 x 48 x 29 cm
    29 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 11 3/8 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 11
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 11
    Bronze
    69 x 69 x 19 cm
    27 1/8 x 27 1/8 x 7 1/2 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 12
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 12
    Bronze
    56 x 56 x 25 cm
    22 x 22 x 9 7/8 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 9
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 9
    Steel sculpture
    73 x 73 x 20 cm
    28 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 18/l
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 18/l
    Stainless Steel
    18 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
    47 x 70 x 18 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 17
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 17
    Bronze
    90 1/8 x 66 7/8 x 25 5/8 in
    229 x 170 x 65 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Commissioned sculpture - Chiasme 6
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Commissioned sculpture - Chiasme 6
    Stainless steel sculpture covered with chronium plating
    65 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
    165 x 40 x 40 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 7
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 7
    Stainless Steel
    23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 111 3/8 in
    60 x 60 x 283 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 83
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 83
    Bronze
    37 x 61 x 37 in
    94 x 155 x 94 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 34
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 34
    Bronze
    32 x 30 x 21 cm
    12 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 6/l
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 6/l
    Stainless Steel
    33 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 73 5/8 in
    85 x 85 x 187 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 19
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 19
    Bronze
    9 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
    24 x 26 x 82 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 2
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 2
    Stainless Steel
    24 3/4 x 24 3/4 x 30 3/4 in
    63 x 63 x 78 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 20
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 20
    Stainless Steel
    18 7/8 x 9 x 30 3/4 in
    48 x 23 x 78 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 22
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 22
    Bronze
    18 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
    47 x 70 x 18 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 24
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 24
    Bronze
    18 1/8 x 27 1/8 x 5 1/8 in
    46 x 69 x 13 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 25
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 25
    Bronze
    9 7/8 x 36 5/8 x 7 1/8 in
    25 x 93 x 18 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 26
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 26
    Bronze
    12 5/8 x 33 7/8 x 7 1/8 in
    32 x 86 x 18 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 28/l
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 28/l
    Bronze
    18 1/2 x 24 x 16 7/8 in
    47 x 61 x 43 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 29
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 29
    Bronze
    17 3/4 x 26 3/8 x 7 7/8 in
    45 x 67 x 20 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 30
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 30
    Bronze
    9 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 18 7/8 in
    25 x 59 x 48 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 32
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 32
    Bronze
    22 x 9 1/2 x 28 3/8 in
    56 x 24 x 72 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 33
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 33
    Bronze
    22 x 9 1/2 x 28 3/8 in
    56 x 24 x 72 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 5
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Chiasme 5
    Stainless Steel
    24 x 15 3/8 x 33 7/8 in
    61 x 39 x 86 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 0
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 0
    Stainless Steel
    22 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 42 7/8 in
    57 x 25 x 109 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 14
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 14
    Stainless steel and bronze sculpture
    47 1/4 x 13 x 11 3/4 in
    120 x 33 x 30 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 2
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 2
    Bronze, stainless steel
    23 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    60 x 76 x 26 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 3
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 3
    Bronze, stainless steel
    23 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    60 x 76 x 26 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 4
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 4
    Bronze, stainless steel
    18 7/8 x 31 1/8 x 4 3/8 in
    48 x 79 x 11 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 5
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 5
    Bronze
    27 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 33 7/8 in
    70 x 30 x 86 cm
    Sold
  • Seong-Gu Lee, Solaris 8
    Seong-Gu Lee
    Solaris 8
    Bronze sculpture
    23 5/8 x 8 5/8 x 32 5/8 in
    60 x 22 x 83 cm
    Sold
Biografía

South Korea

 
 

Born in 1984 in Korea, Seong-Gu Lee has developed a sculptural practice that moves from the human figure toward broader questions of relation, embodiment, heat, circulation, and existential presence. While grounded in a disciplined sculptural language, his work has gradually expanded from bodily form to larger structures of circulation, condensation, and spatial tension.

 

This trajectory takes shape in the Chiasme series, where Lee rethinks the body not as a self-contained anatomical figure but as a field of perception, relation, and entanglement. In these works, sculpture becomes a site where self and world, visibility and invisibility, sensation and thought intersect. Rather than presenting the figure as a closed whole, Lee opens it toward a more unstable and relational condition of being.

 

Within this series, his sculptural language also developed through repeated modular structures derived from the forms of X and Y chromosomes. These internal units are not simply formal devices, but a way of understanding bodily existence as already coded, relational, and interconnected. Through repetition, interruption, and linkage, the figure is reorganized as a system of crossings rather than a fixed body.

 

In Solaris, this inquiry expands toward a more cosmic register. Heat, cyclic energy, light, and condensation become central, and sculpture shifts from the articulation of bodily relation toward the formation of a larger energetic field. Circular and radiating forms do not simply depict stars or celestial bodies; they function as compositional structures through which emergence, return, and existential tension become perceptible. What matters here is not the illustration of a motif, but the sculptural manifestation of forces that exceed visible form.

 

More recent works, including Eclosion, gather these trajectories into a more concentrated language of rupture, emergence, and transformation. Across these series, Lee’s sculpture moves between the human and the cosmic, between stillness and latent motion, and between visible structure and invisible pressure. Rather than treating sculpture as a static object, he understands it as a state, a condition in which relation, mass, perception, and spatial tension come into temporary balance. In this way, his work asks how sculpture can still hold presence and existential force in an age increasingly shaped by images and immaterial systems.

 
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