Museum

Lee Ufan Arles

Arles, France

Address

  • 5 rue Vernon
  • Arles
  • Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • 13200
  • France

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:30
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:30
Thursday
10:00 – 17:30
Friday
10:00 – 17:30
Saturday
10:00 – 17:30
Sunday
10:00 – 17:30

Created by Korean artist Lee Ufan, who has been attached to Arles since a 2013 exhibition in the Saint-Laurent-Le Capitole chapel, this exhibition center is both a museum showcasing the artist's historic and recent work, and a place to live and support artistic and cultural activities.

The works of Lee Ufan, a Korean painter, sculptor, poet and philosopher born in 1936, act as revelations. They draw our attention to materials, to emptiness, to the distance between two elements, to reflections and shadows: everything that we might not have seen at first glance, and yet which is part of the work of art.

At the crossroads of three cultures (those of Korea, Japan, where he studied and lives, and France, where he also lives part of the year), Lee Ufan's work is intended to be universal.

His sculptures, which he calls Relatum, are the result of "encounters": for example, between a natural material (stone, linen, etc.), an industrial material forged by man (sheets of steel, glass, etc.) and a space.

They lead us to reflect not so much on what the artist has done, but more broadly on the relationship between man and nature.

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