Lot 94: SEO (b. 1977), Berg und Mensch I, Mixed Media, Germany, 2003

Offered sheet is part of a larger group of works, which deals with the leitmotif of mountain and man. The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, owns works V to X of this group. All of them display a group of people on boulders or rocks. The brushwork is dynamic and vibrant color accents complete the overall impression of the image.

Condition:
The work is in a good condition bearing minor signs of wear. The sheet is slightly corrugated and partially shows some rubbed spots. The right sheet edge is irregularly trimmed. Some toning can be seen occasionally along the upper part. At the upper edge the sheet is mounted to a mat from the reverse with four tape stripes. The sheet filling image dimensions measure 64.6 x 82.5 cm, the dimensions of the frame are 88 x 108 cm.

SEO (b. 1977)
The South Korean artist SEO, whose real name is Seo Soo-kyoung, was born in 1977 in Seoul. From 1992 to 1996 she attended the Gwangju Art School and then studied at the Cho-sun University in Gwangju until 2000. At the end of her studies, she was awarded best student of the year and in the same year she left South Korea to study at the Berlin University of Arts in the class of Georg Baselitz. She was his protégée until 2004. Her works were initially characterized by a linear style of painting, but eventually the linear element lost its importance and color became the main focus. Most of her oeuvre consist of work groups, which are built around a central theme. Her work has been presented in numerous single and group exhibitions, such as 2004 in New York, Erfurt and Regensburg, 2007 in Mannheim, Madrid and Seoul, 2011 in Beijing and Berlin, and in 2014 in Stockholm and Koblenz and 2015 in Venice.

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