Exhibition
Tim Lee - Solo Quintet - Lisson Gallery
Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee's work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1975, Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver. In 2009-10, he was a DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin where his exhibition runs concurrently at the DAAD Galerie and which features String Quartet, Op. 1, Glenn Gould, 1955 as a commission. Lee has recently been the focus of solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and his work is represented in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Canada; Collection de Arte Contemporanea Fundacion, Madrid; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Tate Modern, Lond
