The winner of the 2020 Jasan Art Award, Lee Yong-baek

As an intermediary for the development of Korean contemporary arts, Jasan Cultural Foundation established Jasan Art Award to support competent Korean artists’ activities at domestic and abroad. The 1st winner of Jasan Art Award, Lee Yong-baek, is working in various genres including media art, installation, sculpture, and painting,  expecting his work in the future. The Jasan Award Exhibition 《BREAKING ART》 started with concerns about the relationship between art and society. The artist suggested if there is work of contemplating a changing society, it is also necessary to respond immediately to the rapidly changing world. The idea connected to the new series of changes in daily life and society through Corona 19 (COVID-19), which will reach audiences like “Breaking News.”

Artists:
LEE YONG-BAEK

Run by:
TOTAL MUSEUM

Host by:
Jasan Cultural Fondation

LEE Yongbaek CV:

LEE Yongbaek(b. 1966, Korea), since graduation from the department of painting at Hongik University in Korea on 1990, the Department of Painting at Suttgart State Academy of Artand design in Germany in 1993, and the Department of Sculpture at the Graduate School of the same university in 1995, has been actively working in korea and abroad. From the early 1990s, LEE has worked with various technologies, from single-channel video, sound, kinetics, to robotics. LEE is recognized ad a representative artist in these artistic fields in korea. The reason his work is highly evaluated is not only due to his technological experiments, but also his ability to contain the peculiar political and cultural issues of our time and his imagination on the from of these technologies. Recently, LEE has been presenting new works covering a wide range of genres from video art, which he has long been concentrating on, to sculpture and painting. This kind of attempt is one of his strengths. LEE, While maintaining a unity with his existing works, is able to explore the different and does not insist on using only familiar forms. The presentation of his recent works has become an opportunity to effectively arrange and highlight his wide interets, which deal with existence, society, religion and politics.