Frieze Seoul

COEX

Booth C11

Sep 6–9, 2023September 6–9, 2023

COEX

Gangnam-gu, South Korea

Lehmann Maupin returns to Frieze Seoul with a focused presentation that celebrates the gallery’s Korean artists of historical significance, including Do Ho Suh, Lee Bul, and Sung Neung Kyung. The booth will also spotlight work by international artists with current and forthcoming solo exhibitions in the gallery’s space in Seoul’s Hannam-dong neighborhood, including Loriel Beltrán and David Salle. Salle’s exhibition World People is on view through October 28th, and Beltrán will make his Korean debut in November. As one of the first international galleries to establish a permanent space in Seoul six years ago, Lehmann Maupin is firmly committed to Korea and its artists, many of whom have been a pillar of the program since the gallery’s inception. The works on view at Frieze Seoul illustrate the gallery’s continued intention to foster a diverse and global contemporary program in Asia and to support artists throughout the region.

Do Ho Suh’s Scaled Behaviour series explores notions of the uncanny; specifically, it extends Suh’s interest in the politics of touch. Through a complex process that involves robotics and 3D printing, Suh produced the new works on view ScaledBehaviour_runOn(doorknob_11.4.1), ScaledBehaviour_runOn(doorknob_2.4.2), and ScaledBehaviour_runOn(doorknob_12.4.1) (all 2023) based on an automated drawing made via script from an architectural modeling software. The result is a labyrinthine form (in this case, the shape of a doorknob) that acknowledges both its digital origins and its analogue production, collapsing distinctions between the virtual and the tactile. The works raise questions about control and authorship, and present a subtle reframing of traditional ideas around the all-important ‘hand of the artist.’