Lee Ufan, Lee Ufan, Éditions Actes Sud, 2013 - Lot 14

Lee Ufan, Lee Ufan, Éditions Actes Sud, 2013 Monograph devoted to artist Lee Ufan, a major figure of the Mono-ha movement, presenting his works, installations and theoretical reflections around matter, space and silence, published by Actes Sud. Provenance: Collection of painter François Bouillon. François Bouillon taught at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. A self-taught artist, as a child he frequented the studio of his painter grandfather, then collected African and Oceanic art objects. Through his many travels, he became interested in the primitive signs and symbols of a universal culture. Using a variety of techniques (drawing, painting, reworked photography, sculpture, installation, etc.), "primitive" elements (stone, earth, fire, feather, bone, tree branch, metal, traces) and recurring forms (spiral, point, cone, cross, inversions, etc.), he creates a body of work in which the manufacturing process plays a key role. For François Bouillon, contemporary artist and collector of primitive art, the modern gesture cannot be separated from a primitive imprint. It is accompanied by a search for origin that, beyond historical and cultural developments, brings us back to the most naked of human beings. (Maisondupeuple.fr) [Art premier - Africa - Oceania - America]