YEONSU LIM

  Wrapped

Fascinated and intrigued by the story of Christo’s frustrated intent to wrap the Columbus statue in 1975, South-Korean artist Yeonsu Lim visited Barcelona during autumn last year.The result of her research is the series of works presented at Uxval Gochez Gallery under the title ‘Barcelona Projects’. They are preparatory drawings and proposals for wrapping famous public sculptures we can find in the city. Most of them are well-known and were created by famous artists.

Yeonsu proposes to cover the ’Mitjó' and the ’Tribute to Picasso’ (both by Antoni Tàpies) or the female figure ‘Der Morgen' (Georg Kolbe) in the Mies van der Rohe Pavillion. She even contacted the Museu Maritim to wrap the scale model of the ‘Ictineo' by Monturiol. The exhibition is completed with earlier works, showing spectacular interventions realized in Malta & Los Angeles and sculptures that will be produced in situ during a performance.

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Yeonsu Lim (nacida en 1993, Incheon, Corea del Sur) es una artista radicada en Berlín cuya práctica minimalista se inspira en la filosofía del vacío de Laozi y en el lema de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe “Menos es más”. Influenciada por el Buddhāvatamsaka Sūtra, sus instalaciones site-specific y esculturas transforman objetos cotidianos —como coches o lámparas— para descontextualizar espacios y aumentar la conciencia de los espectadores sobre su entorno y el significado de los objetos.

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Yeonsu Lim (born 1993, Incheon, South Korea) is a Berlin-based artist whose minimalist practice draws from Laozi’s philosophy of emptiness and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Less is more.” Inspired by the Buddhāvatamsaka Sūtra, her site-specific installations and sculptures transform everyday objects—like cars or lamps—to defamiliarize spaces and heighten viewers’ awareness of their environment and object meaning.