Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Hyundai)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Hyundai)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Hyundai)

Exhibition view

(Source = Gallery Hyundai)

			Gallery Hyundai is pleased to present Stroke, a solo exhibition of Choong Sup Lim, from December 14, 2023 through January 21, 2024. Stroke marks the artist’s third exhibition at Gallery Hyundai following Monochromatic Thinking in 2017 and Drawing, In Between in 2021. This exhibition features approximately forty works ranging from 1980s, when Lim began devising his unique artistic language after his move to New York in the early 1970s, to recent works of 2020. Stroke underscores the aesthetic achievements of the artist who has held various experiments on the formality between Western modern art and Eastern calligraphy that are independent from any specific art movement or theory.

Lim constructs his unique oeuvre through experimenting across diverse media and genres such as painting, drawing, sculpture, objects, installation, and media arts. Boundless in his choice of materials, he encapsulates eccentric shapes and forms in collages and assemblages of everyday objects. Materials with various properties and functions, such as tree branches, bird feathers, chopsticks, fur used in clothing, industrial nails, zippers, rulers, window nets, and toilet paper—often found while walking the streets of New York—are arranged or overlapped onto the same surface. Stroke features heterogeneous paintings that combine various media, minimal and monochromatic sculptures, installation that explores the void and formative elements of nature through soil, as well as one that counter-poses the development of civilization to nature, using thread as a medium. The exhibition explores Lim’s aesthetic journey, through which he has established a unique artistic language within the Korean contemporary art scene.

(Source = Gallery Hyundai)