GALLERIES-CHELSEA
LEE BUL
This Korean artist's work often has a switchblade
toughness, dark in tone and conceptually sharp.
Here, shallow cases lined with two-way mirrors
display what look like assault-rifle/guillotine hybrids,
to vague but menacing effect. A large, chainbedecked
chandelier, an homage to the architect
Bruno Taut, shares a mirror-floored room with
the show's centerpiece, a black "bunker" fitted
with an elaborate audio system. Step inside, put
on the headphones, and the gallery beyond is
obliterated by amplified ambient noise; a footfall,
a whisper, even a breath can sound both loud
and echoingly distant. Through June 14. (Lehmann
Maupin, 540 W. 26th St. 212-255-2923.)