PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY FUNDRAISER AUCTION 2007 PREVIEW
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2 Unique Production Proofs, B&W Polaroid, 2006 Lee’s artworks typically employ specific moments in popular culture and art history to look at socio-political movements and the history of the artistic avant-garde, with “race, translation and cultural diaspora always at the centre.” His sources include a wide range of European and North American historical and pop-cultural figures, among them Alexander Rodchenko, Neil Young, Ad Reinhardt, Bobby Orr, Steve Martin and the Beastie Boys. Lee combines these diverse referents into a cohesive body of work whose structured asymmetries reveal unexpected new ways of looking. In these two Polaroid production proofs, Lee simultaneously re-visits the conventions of early video art as practiced by American artist Bruce Nauman in the early seventies, (specifically referencing two works where Nauman instructed actors to imagine sinking into a floor, or the floor rising up over them), and Public Enemy's two landmark hip-hop albums “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” from 1988, and “Fear Of A Black Planet” from 1990. Lee's two photographs feature the artist lying on the ground face down and face up, and by reversing the photograph’s frames, the artist appears both on the floor and ceiling. Here Lee actively re-engages the strategies of one artist while immersed in the vicissitudes of another, and the combination of two autonomies—classical conceptual art and radical black empowerment—flattens both philosophies in order to gain a deeper understanding of each. Born in Seoul, Korea in 1975, Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver. His work is represented in major museum collections worldwide. Recent exhibitions include New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Intertidal, MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium; Sliding Doors: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Tate Modern, London, UK and Appearances, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal.
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