Lee U-Fan was trained in calligraphy, that art of the encounter between the rhythmic (respiration, gesture) and the static (paper, canvas). The greater part of his work is concerned with points and lines. He says that to exist is a point, to live, a line.

If this sounds like a mix of Asian and Western ideas, it is no accident. Lee is a Korean who has lived most of his life in Japan. He studied philosophy, and his early writings concern Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Nietzsche. His work might evoke the great traditions of Asian landscape and Zen painting, but it is equally aligned with the