Index Code:

ART-STA-BAE

Orgin:

South Korea

Field Notes:

charcoal layered · light absorbed · surface dense

Defining Moment:

Early 2000s — charcoal paintings establish density and absorption as governing conditions.

Lee Bae

(

b. 1956

)

lee bay

Lee Bae builds a world where material absorbs light.

Charcoal is layered into dense surfaces.

Difference emerges through density.

Absorption holds as structure.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Lee Bae’s work, repeated application of carbon registers pressure and accumulation, allowing difference to appear only through density rather than gesture.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Lee Bae’s work, repeated application of carbon registers pressure and accumulation, allowing difference to appear only through density rather than gesture.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Dansaekhwa

Repetition and material restraint generate surface through duration and labor.