By Kwon Mee-yoo
Korea Times Intern
Lee Bul, one of the Korea's leading installation sculptors, will present her new exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, starting Nov. 16.
The museum, located in Montparnasse, Paris, specializes in contemporary art and has also invited Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gary Hill and other world-renowned modern artists. Lee is the first Korean artist to have an exhibition at the museum.
Lee will display more than 20 artworks, featuring her flamboyant masterpieces utilizing crystal balls, stainless steel, aluminum chains, mirrors, lights and more.
The exhibit will include ``Cheonji,'' a big tub of eight meters in length, which reminds one of water torture, and ``After Bruno Taut'' which was inspired by German expressionist architect Bruno Taut.
Lee showed scaled-down models of the installations of this exhibition at the PKM gallery in Seoul last April.
Lee was born in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province in 1964. Graduated from Hongik University with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 1987, Lee had her first solo exhibition in 1988 at Il Gallery, Seoul.
In 1997, Lee displayed a project in the Museum of Modern Art in New York focusing on Asian cultural conventions, especially the role of women. She had an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo as well when she was the finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. Lee's work was put on show at the Korean Pavilion of the 48th Venice Biennale.
Lee's exhibition at the museum in Paris will continue to run until Jan. 27 next year.