Lee Ufan is a Korean artist-philosopher whose work was on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. This man has made it his business to bring nature into non-traditional spaces. He uses his philosophical background to invoke tranquility and gentleness into normally thought of as rough materials. He is fond of using stones beside steel (as seen below) and hard edges beside soft textures like cotton and fabric. Another of his great techniques involve using his brush while full of paint and tapping the canvas until the medium runs out. It creates a very interesting pattern which can be a metaphor for how uncertain we are about life itself and really not knowing where it might lead us. The bottom-most picture shows large brush strokes featuring a very difficult to make value scale which the artist achieves by layering. These same squares can be appreciated on a wall in a symmetric room at the museum in which the artist intentionally chooses to place the shapes on the sides of the wall instead of the center. Honoring nature's asymmetry in a mathematically square room.
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