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Lee Seung Taek Non-Art: The Inversive Act

igh above the central courtyard of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, hundreds of thin strips of cerulean fabric twisted and fluttered in the breeze between the museum’s two main buildings, where they were strung along a 70-meterlong rope traversing the open airspace. (1970/2020), an understated and generative outdoor installation by Korean experimental artist Lee Seung Taek, asserts a conceptual logic at

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