Dongyoul Lee “Nature’s Original Form”

Gallery d’Arte

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Gallery d’Arte presents a solo exhibition Nature’s Original Form: Dongyoul Lee.

Dongyoul Lee is a textile and dyeing designer who has produced his works on the silk clothes based on the subject matter of natural scenery by using paraffin printing and acidic dyeing technique including pointillism. He also utilizes simplicity, repeatability, characteristic of materials that represent an aesthetic of restrained form and startling originality of minimalism. The Nature’s Original Form portrays how nature continues to grow through evolution and extinction. Lee also focuses on the expressive freedom of gesture at the abstract expressionism, whilst revealing his unique inner world.

Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1967 and is currently a professor of textile and arts at Chung-Ang University. He has been working as a textiles and dyeing designer for 30 years since he was an undergraduate student. He is currently the chairman of the Korea Textile Design Association.