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Born in Korea in 1936, Lee Ufan emigrated in his late teens to Japan, where in the late 1960s and early '70s he was among the protagonists of Mono-ha, "the school of things," a movement that to some extent paralleled Western arte povera and post-Minimalism. He now divides his time between Japan and France. Most of his recent paintings fall within a series titled "Dialogues," 2005-, and are produced according to the same method: Between one and four brushstrokes of gray paint are made on pure white canvases.
