Booth AT1

Manarat Al Saadiyat

November 20-26, 2023

Perrotin is pleased to return to Abu Dhabi Art with a solo presentation by Lee bae and a selection of recent works by artists from the gallery's roster including Anna-Eva Bergman, Sophie Calle, Julian Charrière, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Laurent Grasso, John Henderson, Leslie Hewitt, JR, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi, Shim Moon-Seup, Tavares Strachan and Xavier Veilhan.

Lee Bae’s monochromatic practice is a formal and immersive journey into the abysses of blackness. Subtly blurring the lines between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, he has developed his abstract aesthetics across categories to imbue the noncolor with tangible depth and intensity. Charcoal, obtained by burning wood and used to revive fire, offers a powerful metaphor for the cycle of life that has further inspired him to expand his exploration to include the fourth dimension of time. Until the early-2000s, he worked exclusively with raw charcoal to create minimal, refined, mosaic-like assemblages of charred wooden shards or chunks on canvas, as well as larger sculptural arrangements of carbonized trunks. While he has moved on to solely working with carbon black, a substance close to soot, Lee Bae’s latest series of pictorial works crystallizes random elemental gestures, which he practices with charcoal ink on canvas and paper, recording his movement and time.