Diverse Works from the 1980s to 2020 Highlight Lim's Unique Exploration of Form and Material

Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

Gallery Hyundai is hosting the "Stroke" exhibition, featuring the works of Choong Sup Lim, from December 14, 2023, to January 21, 2024. This marks Lim's third exhibition at Gallery Hyundai, with previous shows including "Monochromatic Thinking" in 2017 and "Drawing, In Between" in 2021. The exhibition encompasses approximately forty works spanning from the 1980s, when Lim began crafting his distinctive artistic language in New York, to his recent creations in 2020. 

▲ Installation View of “Choong Sup Lim : Stroke" at Gallery Hyundai, 2023, Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

Lim's artistic journey is characterized by experimentation across various media and genres, including painting, drawing, sculpture, objects, installation, and media arts. The artist explores boundless materials, incorporating eccentric shapes and forms in collages and assemblages of everyday objects. Materials such as tree branches, bird feathers, chopsticks, fur, industrial nails, zippers, rulers, window nets, and toilet paper, often collected during his walks in New York, find a place in his compositions.

▲ Installation View of “Choong Sup Lim : Stroke" at Gallery Hyundai, 2023, Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai"Stroke" presents a diverse range of artworks, including heterogeneous paintings that blend various media, minimal and monochromatic sculptures, installations that delve into the void and formative elements of nature using soil, and others that juxtapose the development of civilization with nature, utilizing thread as a medium. The exhibition provides a visual narrative of Lim's aesthetic evolution, showcasing his unique artistic language within the Korean contemporary art scene.

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