Meringue

Artist: Kiduck Kim

Installation: Sermag

May 2021 to September 12, 2022

Traffic median at Santa Monica Blvd. and Doheny Drive

Meringue’s sensual curves invite touch, and the artist intends it to feel like a portal to travel without moving—that you travel when you come in contact with it, not physically, but in the imagination. The translucency of Meringue lets sunlight in to glow naturally during the daytime, and at night transforms Meringue into a mixing chamber of various light combinations. 

About the artist: Award winning architect and artist Kiduck Kim explores the spectrums between art and architecture, digital fabrication and handcrafted, man-made and natural, virtual and real, through geometric experimentations. Creation as a way of everyday living, Kiduck searches to find the underlying meaning of life by making the invisible visible.  First prize winner of Baku International Architecture Award endorsed by the UIA (International Union of Architects), recipient of the Next Generation Design Leader awarded by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and exhibitor at the Venice Biennale in 2006, Kiduck’s work has been showcased internationally.  A licensed architect, with a masters degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, he honed his skills while working at Zaha Hadid Architects and Eisenman Architects, and, together with Frank Gehry, ran a graduate program at UCLA.  www.kiduck.kim

QUESTIONS: Contact Mike Che, Arts Coordinator at (323) 848-6377 or mche@weho.org. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, please call, TTY: (323) 848-6496. To learn more information about the City of West Hollywood and its arts programs visit www.weho.org/arts.

The City of West Hollywood's Arts Division delivers a broad array of arts programs including: Art on the Outside (temporary public art), City Poet Laureate, Drag Queen Story Hour, Free Theatre in the Parks, Grants, Holiday Programming, Human Rights Speaker Series, Library Exhibits, National Poetry Month, One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, Summer Sounds + Winter Sounds, Urban Art (permanent public art), and WeHo Reads. 

 Photo: Artist Kiduck Kim at the installation of Meringue