Lee Bul Exhibition
Lehmann Maupin (201 Chrystie Street)
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Lee will present an installation of sculptures, along with related drawings and maquettes that expand upon her continuing engagement with the fractured tropes and narratives of utopian modernity. By turns strikingly elegant and obsessively intricate, the sculptural works in this exhibition delve into metaphysical and poetic concepts of architectural environments, evoking invented and imaginary landscapes that appear haunted by specters of the historical avant-garde—from Piranesi's labyrinths to the Futurist dreams of Antonio Sant'Elia and, closer to the present, the cataclysmic visions of Lebbeus Woods. During a career spanning more than two decades, Lee Bul has been recognized for a multifaceted oeuvre notable for the sweep of its intellectual concerns as well as its highly crafted, formally cogent visual vocabulary. Though she was academically trained in sculpture, Lee's early works were often performative, exploring questions regarding the representation of the human body. In subsequent years she continued to cross genres and disciplines, producing provocative works that explored themes of beauty, corruption, and decay. As in her recent participation in Prospect.1, the inaugural edition of the international biennial of contemporary art in New Orleans, the works in this exhibition are the result of Lee's current phase of artistic inquiry, constituting an imaginative meditation on the ruins of history, a glittering yet melancholic topography of collective utopian aspirations and failures, the vestiges of which continue to resonate in our consciousness and experience of the world.
[Image: Lee Bul "Untitled" (2009) polyurethane, acrylic 218 x 80 x 100 cm.]
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from April 21, 2010 to June 19, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-21 from 18:00 to 20:00
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'Cyberpunk' Hits the Ceiling: Lee Bul at Lehmann Maupin
...these seven fantastic labyrinthine wood-and-metal hanging works, all jagged angles and impossible corners, as though they inhabit several higher dimensions.