Invisible Questions That Fill The Air: James Lee Byars And Seung-Taek Lee

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INVISIBLE QUESTIONS THAT FILL THE AIR: JAMES LEE BYARS AND SEUNG-TAEK LEE

WITH THE SUPPORT OF MICHAEL WERNER GALLERY

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan

Campo Santo Stefano, San Marco 2945, 30124 Venice (Vaporetto: Accademia)

Private view: Tuesday 16 April, 5–8pm

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, with the support of Michael Werner Gallery will present Invisible Questions That Fill the Air, an exhibition of works by American artist James Lee Byars (b. 1932, d. 1997) and Korean artist Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932), curated by esteemed curator and art historian Allegra Pesenti. Both artists were born in 1932 on opposite sides of the world: Byars in Detroit, an industrial city struggling during the Great Depression, and Lee in a small town in a Northern province of a then unified Korea under Japanese rule. They never met, but their works present surprising and unexpected parallels. Foremost, both artists elude easy categorization. While they are tangentially associated with Surrealism, Dada, Minimalism, Mono-ha, and Arte Povera, their work streams through different forms and concepts, and they resist being bound to a specific movement. Both artists share a deep curiosity for history and the arts of the past, alongside a reflective and critical approach to the present. Invisible Questions That Fill the Air will include over six decades of work and bolsters both Byars’ and Lee’s reputations as major contributors to the 20th and 21st-century avant-garde. The exhibition will run until 25 August 2024.