Lee Ufan Arles
Created by the artist Lee Ufan, who has been attached to Arles since an exhibition in 2013, Lee Ufan Arles opened in April 2022. This art center, located in a mansion dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, presents historical and recent works by the artist, and also offers a program of temporary exhibitions as well as artistic and cultural activities.
The works of Lee Ufan, painter, sculptor, poet and philosopher born in Korea in 1936, act as revelations. They draw attention to materials, to emptiness or to the distance between two elements, to reflections and shadows: everything that we may not have seen at first glance, and yet which is part of the work of art.
His sculptures, which he calls Relatum, are the result of "encounters": for example between a natural material (stones, linen, ...), an industrial material forged by man (steel plates, glass ...) and a space. His paintings, sometimes worked in series over several decades, are also the support of reflections on time, on gesture, on the relationship between the full and the empty. Personal expression has faded into a regularly renewed quest for infinity.
Created by the artist Lee Ufan, who has been attached to Arles since an exhibition in 2013, Lee Ufan Arles opened in April 2022. This art center, located in a mansion dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, presents historical and recent works by the artist, and also offers a program of temporary exhibitions as well as artistic and cultural activities.
The works of Lee Ufan, painter, sculptor, poet and philosopher born in Korea in 1936, act as revelations. They draw attention to materials, to emptiness or to the distance between two elements, to reflections and shadows: everything that we may not have seen at first glance, and yet which is part of the work of art.
His sculptures, which he calls Relatum, are the result of "encounters": for example between a natural material (stones, linen, ...), an industrial material forged by man (steel plates, glass ...) and a space. His paintings, sometimes worked in series over several decades, are also the support of reflections on time, on gesture, on the relationship between the full and the empty. Personal expression has faded into a regularly renewed quest for infinity.
Programme
Shape-Space-Form-Faktura, Non-objective art in Central and Eastern Europe between 1915 and 1928
Round Table on Thursday 12 December - Constructivism: destroying art to refound everyday life
With Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov - Director, Bibliothèque Kandinsky and Valérie Pozner - Director of Research at the CNRS (Thalim -Théorie et Histoire des Arts et des Littératures de la Modernité).
There will be a free guided tour of the exhibition at 5pm, prior to the lecture.
Participation is free by prior reservation at billetterie@leeufan-arles.org
From the most renowned members to those less well known to the general public, the artists of the European avant-garde shared a common creative desire. That of a universal visual language rooted in architecture and industrial aesthetics. Shape-Space-Form-Faktura presents a selection of remarkable works by artists including Kasimir Malevich - an artist who continues to inspire Lee Ufan - alongside Henryk Berlewi, Gustav Klucis, Lajos Kassák, Katarzyna Kobro, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Peter Laszlo Peri, Sergei Senkin, Władysław Strzemiński
This historic first Lee Ufan exhibition in Arles illustrates both Lee Ufan's interest in and inspiration by Malevich and avant-garde artists, and the desire to present major works from the Suprematist and Constructivist currents for the first time in Arles.
Pat Steir, Light on Water
Lee Ufan Arles invites the great American contemporary artist Pat Steir to take over Atelier MA, opposite Hôtel Vernon.
The exhibition Pat Steir, Light on Water brings together two bodies of rare and previously unseen works on paper by the renowned artist Pat Steir. Known for her paintings, Steir has been actively drawing since the early 1970s.
In 1989, Pat Steir began her celebrated Waterfall series, in which she cascades paint down the length of the canvas, deliberately abandoning her process to gravity and chance. At this time, Steir produced the six drawings that make up the Light on Water series by pouring and combining oil paint and watercolor on handmade paper.
Drawings from the Light on Water series will be exhibited alongside an untitled series from 2005. Distilling her pictorial process down to the decisive moment of contact with paper, these drawings testify to the place given to chance in the artist's work, when she lets paint take on its own shape.
Access
Lee Ufan Arles
5 rue Vernon, 13200 Arles
+33 (0)9 78 07 83 26
www.leeufan-arles.org
Tuesday to Sunday (every day from July to September), 10am-6pm (10am-7pm from July to September).
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Château de Campuget : just a few minutes from Arles, enjoy a stroll through a superb park surrounded by vines, a glass of chilled rosé from the estate, and delicious dishes made with produce from the vegetable garden. It's the ideal place to escape the madness of the Rencontres and relax.
• Plage de Piemanson : 7 km of fine sand in the heart of the Camargue. The southern Vaccarès ponds are home to colonies of pink flamingos.
• Parc Naturel Régional des Alpilles : situated between the Camargue and the Luberon, the Alpilles Park covers an area of marshes, forests, vineyards and olive groves set against the limestone rocks of the Luberon.
• Le Buste et L'oreille : this wine (and food) cellar is home to a temporary Louis Vuitton bookshop.
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• La Maison Molière : 5 elegant, tastefully furnished rooms, run by collector Michel Montagnier, in the Roquette district.
• Hôtel Présent : this 50s building is the setting for a collection of lighting, objets d'art and furniture from the 40s to the present day. In addition to its 13 rooms, the hotel is above all a restaurant, a bar and a rooftop offering one of the most beautiful panoramas in the city.
• Mas de Chabran : The Domaine de Chabran and its 18th-century Mas Provençal stand in the middle of huge formal gardens, not far from the village of Maussane-les-Alpilles.
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• Le café japonais : japanese coffee shop that smells of iced matcha tea and K'Far café. Let yourself be seduced by their delicious onigiris!
• Kalu Coco : fresh sandwiches, salads and sushi! Tasty recipes and a wonderful welcome.
• Inari : a summer restaurant run by Céline Pham, a chef who fuses French cuisine with Vietnamese heritage. Certainly the best value for money in town.
• La Chassagnette : 1 Michelin star restaurant in a former Camargue sheepfold, with chef Armand Arnal serving an organic vegetable garden of over 2 hectares.
• L'Oriel : a French restaurant that celebrates local producers and seasonal produce, with Quentin Lepilliet in the kitchen, a passionate young chef.
• Le Galoubet : bistronomic cuisine based on high-quality raw ingredients, served in a beautiful 18th-century building.
• Mesa : seasonal dishes and natural wines, served on the terrace or in the bistro-style dining room with its open kitchen.
