KWANGHO LEE

Kwangho Lee was born in 1981 and grew up in a small city next to Seoul, Korea. A Metal Art & Design major at Hongik University, he graduated in February 2007 and currently lives and works in Seoul. This year marks his 10th year since the start of his career as a designer. Making things by hand was a great joy as a child, which seems to be inherited from his grandfather who, a farmer himself, constantly hand-made daily household goods from natural materials found nearby. Kwangho Lee appreciated the way he looked at everyday objects and thus began to approach things in similar ways; to give new meaning and function to the most ordinary. Today, as he continuously presents new series of works, his approach has made some developments which are indepth discoveries of moments when materials meet(or join) another. Until now he made works on marble and marble, copper and enamel, steel and steel and tries to describe in his works the instant moment of union.