LEE Young-In
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Lee Young-In was born in South Korea, he lives and works in Paris.

A 2003 graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, Lee Young-In previously trained at Kyung-Ki University in Korea. He is a member of the Sonamou Association.

Lee Young-In's work is developed around the theme of nature and the elements. Through painting and large formats, it is part of the purest Korean (and Asian) tradition of representing reality as its revelation.

Lee Young-In's technique is thus put at the service of a reality, a truth, striking "visual". His first series devoted to landscapes, and more particularly to the forest, form immersive polyptych compositions. His more recent works are devoted to stones, essential elements of the Korean landscape carrying great symbolism.

Lee Young-In rightly explains the meaning of these stones. Their arrangement in the space of the canvas is as much the artist's choice, a sure taste for balance, as the harmonious chance provoked by nature. The support, although blank, thus evokes, by the power of suggestion, the bed of a torrent, a beach, a garden, ... The stones are placed there as witnesses to the beauty and the passage of time, to permanence but also to the slow and subtle change of the world.

Lee Young-In offers us a very personal, rare vision of a very great aesthetic form. The quality of painting, the beauty of tones and materials, are put in harmony with the intellectual and spiritual scope of an authentic subject.

Lee Young-In's works have been the subject of important exhibitions, in Korea, in France, and are present in public collections as well as in important private collections.