Gallery Vazieux - Booth A202
Rao Fu, Girl behind the tree I, oil on canvas, 136 x 115 cm, 2021, Courtesy of Gallery Vazieux & Rao Fu
As part of the participation in Asia Now 2021, Gallery Vazieux would like to exhibit the works of three Korean artists and a Chinese artist; Lee Ungno, Youjin Yi, Myung-Joo Kim and Rao Fu, who decided to live in exile in Europe. All four found a way to express the cultural duality in a thoroughly contemporary way.
Lee Ungno (1904-1989), considered as the pioneers of this fusion of Eastern and Western art, who lived in exile in Paris, found a way to breathe fresh life into Eastern traditional painting via Western abstractionism. Youjin Yi (b.1980) spent her childhood in Korea, where she lived a simple life in the countryside, moved to Germany in Munich, where she pursued her art practice. Youjin Yi’s metaphorical art evokes the themes of solitude, exile, fate, and the beauty of the world. The exhibition also explores the works of the Chinese emerging artist Rao Fu (b.1978) who lives and works in Dresden. His works are inspired by certain aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy. But his pictorial style is more in line with contemporary figurative painting.