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Kwang
Lee Kwang Lee translates Goya’s condensed, dramatic, hence humoristic etching masterly into colour and scale. She intensifies the impression through an abstract-expressionistic style. In her painterly technique, Kwang Lee displays the rich tradition of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where teachers like Paul Klee and Markus Lüpertz shaped the development of German painting. For Kwang Lee, working on etchings by Francisco Goya is not only a homage to a great artist but also a paraphrase of his themes in the context of the issues of our time. She draws our attention to our own ambiguity towards violence and destruction, to our fascination of the abnormal. Goya’s series of bullfight scenes and capriccios are for Kwang Lee silent witnesses of the eternal struggle of humanity. Goya was an intimate spectator of the human being and depicted it with all its weakness and foolishness. Kwang Lee’s tragedy-comedy of “endless pain, sweet madness” therefore leaves room for comfort and hope. As Goya wrote, "So goes the world. People trick and bullfight with each other. He who yesterday played the bull today plays the gentleman-rider in the ring. Fortune directs the fiesta and distributes the roles according to the whims of the caprice.” Goya, Los Caprichos |
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Bullfight #1
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Bullfight #2