▲ Untitled, Acrylic and U.V.L.S gel on canvas, 2012 ⓒ Choong-sup Lim, Gallery Hyundai

A senior Korean artist Chung-sup Lim's solo exhibition, 'STROKE' will be held at Hyundai Gallery in Seoul.

Lim is a contemporary Korean artist who has built his world of works through experiments across various media and genres such as painting, drawing, sculpture, object, installation, and media art.

After moving to New York in the early 1970s, he began to establish his view of art. The exhibition features about 40 works the artist worked on from the 1980s to the latest in 2020.

 

▲ Untitled, Thread, wood and acrylic, 109x75x15cm, 2008 ⓒ Choong-sup Lim, Gallery Hyundai

The exhibition name 'STROKE', represents the artist's aesthetic atmosphere, which has attempted various experiments on formality. He shows the world of work between Western contemporary art and Eastern calligraphy, independent from certain art trends or theories.

The artist has no restrictions on the choice of creating materials. He creates a new world by placing or overlapping various everyday materials such as branches, bird feathers, wooden chopsticks, clothing fibers, industrial nails, zippers, insect repellents, and roll tissues on one screen. 

▲ White Hangul, Acrylic, oil, U.V.L.S. gel on shaped canvas, 251x159x6cm, 2000 ⓒ Choong-sup Lim, Gallery Hyundai

In the exhibition, he presents a combination of various media, relief with a plane and minimal monochromatic tone that make up a heterogeneous screen, installation art that explores the margins and formability of nature by installing soil and works that show the confrontational relationship between the development of civilization and nature with thread materials.

Through the exhibition, visitors will track Lim's journey to establish himself as an independent artist in Korean contemporary art history.

The exhibition will be held at Gallery Hyundai in Jongro-gu, Seoul, until Jan. 21 next year.

 

▲ Scape-Fossil@Dialog. 6-13, Mixed media, found object, box, etc., 26x46.5x17.5, 2000-2011 ⓒ Choong-sup Lim, Gallery Hyundai

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