杨洋

ILLEGAL STRUCTURE

A site-specific architectural installation exhibition
By William Lim

Curator: Samantha Wong

Exhibition period: 6 Feb – 14 Mar 2009
You are cordially invited to the official exhibition opening reception on Thursday, 19 Feb 2009 6pm onwards

William Lim’s installation deals with the uncertainties and intervention of life, how the environment relates to the habitants and its psychological effect, which searches for some kind of communication with the public. His works often starts with local construction materials such as large quantity and repeated use of bamboo, wood, fluorescent light and mirror, or found objects, which becomes transmuted into a perceptual, philosophical roots in social reality.  Basically it’s in order to raise question concerning the efficacy of the work of art.

He sees art and architecture as important to our society and often combines both elements, which form the main concept of his architectural installations, and he called them, the “Civil Sculpture”.  Most of his installation works are inspired by architecture and based on the architectural theory - a re-make of space in aesthetically consequential forms.

LIM graduated from Cornell University in USA with a Bachelor in Architecture, Master in Architecture minoring in Photography.  He is a Hong Kong based awards winning architect.  After graduation, he worked in Boston for 5 years before returning to HK in 1987.  In 1993, he assumed the position of managing director at CL3 Architects Ltd.  Lim has participated in numerous significant art projects and exhibitions in Hong Kong and overseas, including Art Container: Beautiful Journey. Beautiful World; Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: Refabricating City; Art. Architecture 97.07 – Works Transcending Art and Architecture; Venice Biennale International Architectural Exhibition 2007; Venice Biennale International Architectural Exhibition 2006; Public Space -  Found Item no.1 & 2: The Dream & the Search (at Hong Kong Arts Centre) and Lantern Wonderland, etc.


Tang Contemporary Art - Hong Kong

Basement, Hollywood Centre
233 Hollywood Road
Hong Kong
Tel: 852-2544 9918
Fax: 852-2544 9920