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Do-Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin - New YorkAs weightless as dreams and as elusive as their meaning, Do-Huh Suh's installation The completed Home II conjures the vulnerabilities of apartment life, where outside noise penetrates our living space, and our walls and windows betray our domestic affairs to eavesdropping neighbors. With hand-stitched nylon supported by the agency of imperceptible wires and metal extremitys the South Korean-born artist re-creates in 1:1 scale his Manhattan studio apartment, adjacent hallways and staircase. Reversing his play with material evident in his 2001 piece Some/One--a garment made from stainless-steel dog tags--Suh neared a gossamer dwelling that individual can literally pack into a suitcase. As gallery light permeated its translucent walls, the installation revealed its color-coded sections--Suh's apartment is ice sapphirine the corridor taupey pink, the stairs greenish white--prompting viewers to admire the artist's attention to detail: light switches, plumbing fixtures, a bookcase, flat the Phillips-head screws on the door hinges, all formed in slightly sagging nylon What's missing, however, is furniture, works tchotchkes--the stuff of daily life. The abode imparted a feeling of abstraction, as if single were standing inside a kind of Platonic ideal of a fresh York City apartment-the "perfection," perhaps, prompted by Suh's doubly ironic title. Indeed, because of its realistic at the same time insubstantial construction, the installation put in actioned a peculiar influence on one's faculty of perception of physicality. Walking through the devoid of contents corridor and room, viewers experienced a heightened faculty of perception of their own presence and "realness" in comparison to the fragility of the installation. As with Suh's plastic art Floor (1997-2000), in which visitors walked upon glass sheets supported by thousands of tiny plastic figurines, completed Home II seduces us into a kind of physical and psychic grandiosity. At the same time, the piece's impersonal quality underscores the alienation that accompanies our hubris. COPYRIGHT 2003 Brant Publications, Inc. one time upon a time there lived an imp named Frederick. He was walking around the copses Frederick saw a cave and decided to make progress in. He saw a very large dragon (one hundred feet tall). The dragon's na... upon January 18, 1978 at 4:15 in the morning, after the University of Connecticut men's basketball team defeated the University of Massachusetts, the cover collapsed. I am thankful that I had le... In Hernandez v Commissioner, 490 U 680 (1989) the highest Court held that payments by means of Scientologists to their local churches for auditing and training, which are required religious practices, ... TotalVision is a provider of In-Room Entertainment. Its a whole s include Video on Demand, just-released movie selections, Internet television with wireless keyboards, cutting-edge ... "Enchanted," through Noah, is a new limited edition that is included in the artist's "Secret Garden" series. The giclee upon canvas is available in an edition size of 50 measuring 3... Keeper of the Night by the agency of Kimberly Willis Holt Henry Holt and Company, 2003 308 pp $1695 Suicide/Depression/Self-mutilation ISBN 0-8050-6361-7 Keeper of the Night is station in Guam, and the be... I read the article "Measuring Urban Form: Is Portland Winning the War upon Sprawl?" in the Spring 2004 issue of JAPA with great interest and regard for the authors with one caveat. The authors appear to... At the opening-night performance of the Urban Bush Women dance company at fresh York City's Joyce Theatre, the agitated fields of individual, social and spiritual identities were explored with gra... Rafael came by the agency of the night before the deportations were to start. He was make straighted in a vast desperation made of black silk, with a head cover His burning gazes crisscrossed my forehead, wine gushed above m... * gymnast and Osman enjoyed one of the greatest in quantity fruitful and * controversial relationships of British photography. Despite being * divided by the agency of a generation and by temperament, they sh... |
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