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Alvin Lee, Bung Lyol

Introduction of IACO
-International Art Cooperative Organization - Gallery & Agency Since 2006

   
  IACO is an Art Organization & Art Agency, that aims at the international hub based in Seoul Korea. By interacting between galleries and artists, collectors associated with the audience are working together with a diversity of artists' data info elaborately, not only working by archiving and exposing it wide a range; but also curating current outstanding Korean contemporary artworks to the world stage in the art fairs. Simultaneously IACO strongly pursues the matters of caring for the activities and privilege of artists, that is after all supporting to boost and facilitate the artist's activities, at the same time, doing on discovering from emerging and potential artists to extraordinary artists. Accordingly, as the leader, Alvin Lee has been dedicating his efforts to them with diverse art projects in Asian regions and globally. with his worthy experiences during 6 years as secretary general of AWC, Asian Watercolor Confederation established in 1989 by Asian 14 nations, which ran over 2011 for 23 years. Besides, he is exclusively doing curatorial work with endeavor as well, for maintaining the valuable art projects which eventually wish for the achievements put to be the highest level of the Korean contemporary works on the global stage, by searching for the market strategies and international art fairs. IACO Agency has created diverse ways by a unique aesthetic for enriching artists' activities through its restless efforts, still IACO pines for a great achievement.

Meanwhile, the final IACO's destination working with his genuine efforts is to help the artists and work with those patronage who want to help their art activity. Such charitable endeavors are making it possible which bring an exclusive art business for better profits to the artists. In the long run, IACO pursues the sustainability both their activities and to exist by keeping their aspirations ongoing well-being. On the other hand, challenges to expand much favorable art markets by attending the international art fairs, and through exposing their prominent artworks there, either more artists enable to attain actual benefit for vibrant and ardent activities and profits from its results, that will be practically supported by through such a goodness.
 
  Beside, as an artist, in fact, Alvin Lee who vibrantly has been working on his art world as refer to the below his career, and simultaneously by serving to Korean artists who enable to enhance their activities under the name of IACO- Non profitable Organization which was founded by him since 2006. It aims to develop Korean contemporary art in globe,through its network system as a hub to interact between Asian regions and world widely,which has been bearing fruitful things and considerable results so far, he still crave for much dedication to work for better future of art activities along with artists.
 
 
e-mail : artvenue52@hanmail.net
   
   

Biographical Notes

Alvin Lee, Bung Lyol

Founder, IACO
Currently
President, IACO- International Art Cooperative Organization
Advisory Director of JEMA Contemporary Museum of Art, Jeonju
Former, Secretary General,  AWC /Asian Watercolour Confederation
Former, Int'l Committee, Korea Fine Art Association
               
1952: Born in Seoul and working in Seoul
          M.F.A Dept. of Fine Arts Planning, Hongik, UNIV.
          B.F Dept. of English Literature, KNOU.
-Art Experiences
    Commissioner & curator
      Meta-Signs- Traverse 2023/ (UK, Denmark, India, Korea, Art GAGA)
      Art Breathing over the 2023 (Livforest, Resort Hotel)
      Art in Forest IACO Gallery 2021 ( IACO Gallery Agency )
      Contemporary Art 2021 COVID-19 beyond the Catastrophe
      ( Jeonju Contemporary Museum )
      Scope Art Show New York 2020 USA, IACO Gallery
      Scope Miami 2019, USA ,IACO Gallery & Agency
      AAF Amsterdam 2019, Netherlands, IACO Gallery & Agency
      Art Gwangju 2019, Korea
      Art Nordic 2019 Denmark, IACO Gallery
      Art Jakarta 2018, Ritz Calton, IACO Gallery
      Art Nordic 2018 Denmark , IACO & Mayjune Gallery
      Miami Scope 2017, USA, Tableau Gallery
      AAF Hamberg 2017,Germany, Tableau Gallery
      Art Context, New York 2017, USA, GAGA Gallery
      Affordable Art Fair 2016 New York, USA
      Aqua Art Miami 2016,USA, GAGA Gallery
      Basel Scope 2016, IACO & Tableau Gallery
      Art Fair 21 Cologne 2016, Germany, IACO & Godo Gallery
      Affordable Art Fair Hampstead 2015, UK, GAGA Gallery
      MIAF Art Fair 2014, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Art Center
      20th AWC's Exhibition Seoul 2011, Hanjeon Art Center
      Shanghai Art Expo 2009, ECEC,Shanghai, China
      Asian Biennale 2008 Zhengzhou,Museum of Art, China
      Int'l Art Expo Malaysia 2006-2011, MECC, KL
      Asian Biennale 2006 KL Malaysia
      Bangladesh Biennale 2004
      Int'l Environmental Art Expo Korea 2003, Coex
           
    Founder & Organizer and  Art Director -
      Ar Fair Daegu 2022 -Foreign art Director
      Artrooms Seoul 2018 - 1st Edition, Riviera Hotel, Seoul,Korea
      Artkorea London 2018, 3rd Edition, Le Dame Art Gallery, London, UK 
      Artkorea London 2017 in conjuction with Artroom,
      Le Dame Art Gallery, London, UK
      Artkorea London 2016, Le Dame Art Gallery, London, UK
      Spirit Asia 2010,Beijing, Scola Art Center
      Asian Spirit & Soul 2008, Sungnam Art Center
      Namsong Art Festival 2009,Korea, Sungnam Art Center
   
  Private Exhibitions & Selected Exhibitions, Art Fairs
      11times Solo Exhibitions  /  Domestic and Overseas
      2016 Koln Artfair21 (Staatenhaus,Koln, Germany )
      Art Basel Scope 2016, Switzerland (Clarahuus, Basel )
      AAF Art fair Milan 2016, (Superstudio Piu, Milan, Italy )
      Artkorea London 2016, (Le Dame Art Gallery, London, UK)
      2016 International Contemporary Art Exhibition,Taiwan (Tainan Museum of Arts)
      AAF Art Fair Hampstead 2015, London, UK ( Gaga Gallery, Seoul)
      MIAF Air Fair Seoul 2014 ( Seoul Art Center )
      2013 Invitational exhibition 'Art Today', Singapore
      'Spirit Asia' Contemporary Art 2010( Scola Art Center, Beijing, China )
      'Explore to Asian Spirit' 2008 International Contemporary Art by 13 countries
      (Sung Nam Art Center, Korea)
      Korea contemporary Art in wien ( Austria )
      Korea Contemporary Art in Paris ( France )
      'Asian wind' International Contemporary Art (Chiba, Japan)
      The Contemporary Int'l Art exhibition by Korea- Japan (Tokyo, Seoul Art Center)
      'ArtNow' Int'l Exhibition of Contemporary  (HongKong and Korea )
      Invited to the Korea Contemporary artists (Andres Gallery, Singapore)
      Invited to the Contemporary Special Artists (Padma Gallery, Bali, Indonesia)
      Invited to Asian Contemporary Art in Tainan, Taiwan ( Tainan Museum of Art )
    1989-2011, for 2 decades, participated in 'Asian Watercolours' Organized by AWC (  HongKong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Seoul, Jakarta,Singapore, Bangkok, Bali )

    Since 1984, over several hundred times, participated in various major Int'l exhibitions in overseas, including international Art Fair, such as Basel Scope,AAF,21Art Cologne,  so on, over 500 times Participated in Numerous Major Private Exhibitions and Group Exhibitions in Austria, France, London, Germany,Swiss, Tokyo, Chiva, Zhungjou, Beijing, Shanghai,USA,Bangkok,  Singapore, Hongkong, Bali, Taiwan, Melaka, Malaysia, Jarkarta, Seoul, etc.

    Collections
    Padma Hotel, Bali,Indonesia
    Farmer Bank, Bangkok
    Korea Embassy, K.L Malaysia
    City Art Gallery, K.L
    Antlers Gallery, Bristol, UK
    Daemyung Resort Vivaldi, Korea
    Samsung LED CEO's House, Seoul
    Kimpo Wild Flower Lanscape
    Dr. Kim's Hospital
    CNB News Journal
    Dongil Culture Co. so on

Aesthetic Discourse as 'Weather Map
in the universe, a human being whose figures both look abstract form and concrete figure both seem veiled and blurred, but it stands for a symbolic thing of mother nature or an extremely tiny and slightest thing, and he thinks that is merely a trifling fragment by composing factor of it. Unlimited space in principle has some kind of magical mighty, also abruptly has changing and continually the climate is moving on the planet, which occurs unfounded some of the mutations under the divine with somewhat greatness which multiplies and but evolves their movement unceasingly.

Recently a trend of contemporary art that we see ambiguously budging on, as if meaningless under the frame of pluralism and it still seems not to be unveiled the contemporary its tendency, would rather than equivocal status likely dubious being. Despite this, artists do not spare their efforts all the time to create awesome ones. Through these imaginative views, he still forges to invent a new concept through his intuition with vibrant visual contemplation by interacting with some figurative things, and he tries to find out something metaphysical words, in formative of the oddity, it looks like mystic things, conjuring something in captivating appeal, also whatever, whenever he is some time in some way, his eyes still keeping on tension that shall be immersed in an optical illusion, exposing figures as clear as crystal, as white clouds, green forests, even stirring up the colored field like abstract paintings which are painted deliberately by hidden his intention on canvas its wonder and virtuosity from the nature. All those are expressed and symbolized by him in the anxiety of living as the theme of its method as 'the weather map' by his philosophical intuition and aesthetic implication of an issue.

'The Weather Map', his formative views and invisible things in his artworks as a symbol using metaphorical, paradoxical, and ironical language. it exposes some of the vague shapes through his depiction. A crucial thing is how we could harmonize our lives to survive on the earth, whether employing idealistic or utopia, both are fused into utmost exquisitely, however, just question remains. Hence, he'd focus on those issues as a discourse of aesthetics, this is just what his pictorial essence is as an aesthetics language to communicate with people. It is a message that probably to protect from all the catastrophes and to preserve the well of nature on the planet an issue. However, he said 'I consider and imply it is an absurd and abstruse thing to express it on canvas from my angle, even an irresistible thing for anyone who could be able to do it, except it shall be just delivered to the people by imagination. Despite this, an artist, who necessarily uses way by contemplating to look into seductive and abstract objects, eventually transforms comprehensive language or a visible image to empathize with the public eye. 'I'd therefore persistently try to verify its mysterious substance that will finally turn out some of the greatness from the core of nature with virtuosity by using as a media and methodology for my artworks, which concept through my artistic insight what I do emphasis on.' He mentioned.
Logos in Nature -Blossom Mixed Media
Weather Map -White Rain Mixed Media,73x48cm 2009
The Logos in Nature 07-6 Mixed Media
Weather Map- Pinky Rain, 72x52cm Mixed Media 2009
Weather Map- Peace on earth ixed media,
Weather Map- from the myth,Mixed Media,
Weather Map- Cloud 9, Mixed Media
Weather Map- Escaping, Mixed Media on Canvas, 54X72cm