Overview
Myungil Lee is an artist who expresses the essence of painting.
The fundamental emotion of his work seems to be based on love and compassion for humans. He is an artist who places importance on expressing the life process of finding human existence and purpose through the movement of appearing objects. He is always searching new things and always trying to present different methods. Recent works have gone beyond emotional works and reflected psychological concreteness to convey the share of imagination and the subjective view of form to the audience in terms of brushstrokes and colors.
He used bright colors to find out the positive aspects of people in his works and the images of people who are happy. The improvisation act of painting with the mind while communicating emotions with the work becomes an important moment in the artistic process. In other words, it is to find the memory of people in his life.
He said " Life is a process of modifying and building up our memories.
My works are my life, memory, and hope."
As humans are born and grow up, they acquire knowledge and experience culture in society. And each individual has a different set of values. He shows a constant interest in the human figure he discovers in his ego.
He expressed the innocence of beginning, not being determined as he grew up, and did not try to express the excessive determination of human beings.
Rather than artificially presenting the clarity of 'what this is', he tried to give an infinite share of imagination in 'what this seems to be' in innocence.
In his works, we can find psychological forms that have form but not concrete. You can feel the territory, position, concern, and life of each individual's various beings.
The fundamental emotion of his work seems to be based on love and compassion for humans. He is an artist who places importance on expressing the life process of finding human existence and purpose through the movement of appearing objects. He is always searching new things and always trying to present different methods. Recent works have gone beyond emotional works and reflected psychological concreteness to convey the share of imagination and the subjective view of form to the audience in terms of brushstrokes and colors.
He used bright colors to find out the positive aspects of people in his works and the images of people who are happy. The improvisation act of painting with the mind while communicating emotions with the work becomes an important moment in the artistic process. In other words, it is to find the memory of people in his life.
He said " Life is a process of modifying and building up our memories.
My works are my life, memory, and hope."
As humans are born and grow up, they acquire knowledge and experience culture in society. And each individual has a different set of values. He shows a constant interest in the human figure he discovers in his ego.
He expressed the innocence of beginning, not being determined as he grew up, and did not try to express the excessive determination of human beings.
Rather than artificially presenting the clarity of 'what this is', he tried to give an infinite share of imagination in 'what this seems to be' in innocence.
In his works, we can find psychological forms that have form but not concrete. You can feel the territory, position, concern, and life of each individual's various beings.
ARTIST NOTE
What is human existence? What is the form of emotions? How can we represent desire? What are the differences between what is seen and what is felt?The permanence of human existence cannot be separated from impermanence. So is the relation between existence and non-existence. The story of my life inspires my work as I strive to find values of human existence expressed through human desires found daily in routines and emotions. I find inspiration of my works in Buddhist’s Samsara, i.e. the eternal cycle of birth and death: all human beings are born, live and die; and exist living in symbiosis with others.
Human existence are not immutable but they continuously seek progress, betterment and empowerment. In order for human beings to exist, physical instincts and behaviors cannot be separated. Therefore, my works are the result of certain choices and actions of mine, as I seek to stay spiritually alert to see my inspiration reflected in my works.
I make efforts to weave stories of symbiotic lives in my works, hoping that they would reflect human existence, how those existences endure, how basic instincts are expressed, how such essential elements coexis in harmony interact with each other.
I try not to use figurative forms, so that abstractions can fuel viewers' curiosity and imagination. Sometimes I work with objects like stainless steel to express the symbiotic relationship of empty spaces and shapes reflecting the intricate connection of all elements in the world.
As for colors and forms, which are essentially conventional symbols, I try to avoid clichés and prejudices, while constantly trying to destroy my inner walls so as to overcome the boundaries of traditional art and the limits to perception.
Lives, emotions and values are different yesterday, today and tomorrow; this is the very reason of my existence and my work and the purpose of my life. I work and live to find a path to understand the identities of human beings, including myself.