LEE Yongbaek(b. 1966, Korea), since graduation from the department of painting at Hongik University in Korea on 1990, the Department of Painting at Suttgart State Academy of Artand design in Germany in 1993, and the Department of Sculpture at the Graduate School of the same university in 1995, has been actively working in korea and abroad. From the early 1990s, LEE has worked with various technologies, from single-channel video, sound, kinetics, to robotics. LEE is recognized ad a representative artist in these artistic fields in korea. The reason his work is highly evaluated is not only due to his technological experiments, but also his ability to contain the peculiar political and cultural issues of our time and his imagination on the from of these technologies. Recently, LEE has been presenting new works covering a wide range of genres from video art, which he has long been concentrating on, to sculpture and painting. This kind of attempt is one of his strengths. LEE, While maintaining a unity with his existing works, is able to explore the different and does not insist on using only familiar forms. The presentation of his recent works has become an opportunity to effectively arrange and highlight his wide interets, which deal with existence, society, religion and politics.
