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ARTIST ARCHIVE
SupLim Choong
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Themes: Conceptual, environment, spirituality, social issues, activist, processional Review: Choog Sup Lim creates mixed media surreal installations which exist in a fragmented, dreamlike state. Eleanor Heartney, art critic says that, in a sense, "Lim's work s are structured like memories. Forms and materials are carefully selected for their capacity to conjure multiple associations." Ken Friedman also comments on his surreal method of composition that "Choong-Sup Lim's art is a playfully serious map of the objects and the means by which they came together. It is a geography of the materials that he uses, and inventory of the ways he acts on his material to make it art." There are several concerns that Lim has been dealing with in his art. First, some of his works grow out of his awareness of the unfulfilled longing for nature that is part of the modern urban experience. Second, as Lim explores the dichotomies of east/west, interior/exterior, rural/urbal, nature/industry and finally, handmade/machine-made etc., he also intends to reveal some type of contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes to remind us that today we live with a reality that will always seem unstable and incomplete. Third, he believes in and tries to express a life force in all matter, a universal "charge" animating even the least organic, most inert of things. Concluding his essay, Ken Friedman writes, "Lim's work is a marriage of East and West. It suggests what might have been sketched by a Duchamp set down in a temple garden. The pieces show a dry, Duchampian intelligence, quiet probes into the meaning of things and the meaning of meaning. Interesting thoughts blossom in the process of this dialogue: a series of wood sections reminiscent of Duchamp's Three Standard Stoppages; another wooden piece that puts one in mind of what Hans Arp might have made had he lived in an Oriental fishing village."Available research material on the artist in the AAAC Archives are 33 slides, invitation cards, two catalogs with color plates, reviews written by numerous critics and curators, the artist's own essays, poems and other writings. | |||||||||
