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Kiss D7
2015
7 1/4 x 59 x 17 in. (18.42 x 149.86 x 43.18 cm)
Won Ju Lim (Gwangji, South Korea, 1968 - ) Primary
The House Imaginary (2018)
These boxlike sculptures offer a nod to minimalist artist Donald Judd, who made artwork with stacked geometric boxes, an industrial form which he felt carried no symbolic meaning. In Won Ju Lim’s hands, light cascades through the austere boxes, creating colorful, ethereal geometric shadows. The sculptural components within are plexiglass architectural models based on plans of the famed Case Study Houses—quintessential examples of midcentury modernism built in the Los Angeles area between 1948 and 1966. The house is a reference point for an idealized elsewhere, a logical, harmonious, and utopian existence. Lim examines the dialogue between real and imaginary space, as it relates to fantasy, memory, and longing.
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Kiss D7
Sculpture
20157 1/4 x 59 x 17 in. (18.42 x 149.86 x 43.18 cm)
Won Ju Lim (Gwangji, South Korea, 1968 - ) Primary
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Plexiglas and light
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100
Accession Number: 2016.03a-b
Exhibition
The House Imaginary, April 20, 2018 – August 19, 2018, Second Floor North, Second Floor Central Skylight, and Third Floor South Galleries, San José Museum of Art.SJMA Label Text
The House Imaginary (2018)
These boxlike sculptures offer a nod to minimalist artist Donald Judd, who made artwork with stacked geometric boxes, an industrial form which he felt carried no symbolic meaning. In Won Ju Lim’s hands, light cascades through the austere boxes, creating colorful, ethereal geometric shadows. The sculptural components within are plexiglass architectural models based on plans of the famed Case Study Houses—quintessential examples of midcentury modernism built in the Los Angeles area between 1948 and 1966. The house is a reference point for an idealized elsewhere, a logical, harmonious, and utopian existence. Lim examines the dialogue between real and imaginary space, as it relates to fantasy, memory, and longing.
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