Seong-Gu Lee, Chiasme 28/l

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Bronze

18 1/2 x 24 x 16 7/8 in
47 x 61 x 43 cm

Seong-Gu Lee conveys his artistic agenda through two series of sculptures: Solaris and Chiasme. Chiasme or chiasmus describes a pattern of intersecting lines, the simplest of which is the X....

Seong-Gu Lee conveys his artistic agenda through two series of sculptures: Solaris and Chiasme. Chiasme or chiasmus describes a pattern of intersecting lines, the simplest of which is the X. Seong-Gu Lee’s philosophy is rooted in the phenomenological theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, one of the leading proponents of existentialism and phenomenology in post-war France. Merleau-Ponty argues that the chiasmus is a five-fold bodily relation, referring to the body’s connection to both the visible and the invisible, its connection to reality through the eyes, its experience of tangible interaction between itself and the rest of the world, its linguistic interactions, and lastly the social relations between the One and the Other. For Merleau-Ponty, this fivefold relationship is a phenomenon that challenges the idea of objective universal truth and raises fundamental questions of existence.

Seong-Gu Lee United Kingdom, South Korea, 1984

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Seong-Gu Lee United Kingdom, South Korea, 1984

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