Lee’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Paul Facchetti (Paris), 1962

At his first solo exhibition, Ungno presented the collage works that he made directly with his hands instead of ink and paintbrush, and gained great attention from the French art world and press. In contrast to European collage which was usually made by pasting geometrically rendered papers on the canvas, Ungno tore up the pages of magazines, divided them by colour and glued them together creating layers; then he scratched them with a knife to give a sense of texture to the work. Local artists highly regarded the originality of his collage as Asian abstract art that corresponded to Art Informel in the West.