ARTSIDE Gallery | ART TAIPEI 2024

Junseok KANG

BLUE SAILING1

Acrylic on canvas

160 x 224 公分

2024

Kang creates his memories and dreamlike utopia through the landscapes of Jeju and characters with large pupils. Particularly, the portrayal of children’s pupils observing the outside of the canvas resembles dreaming with their eyes open. The large pupils, filled with light, pierce through the viewers, momentarily freezing the time they meet, floating between reality and imagination. This delicacy also originates from the artist’s method of work; Kang thinly applies pigments on the canvas surface and layers them to create landscapes merged with his memories and imagination. The abyssal world crafted through his own reasoning induces emotional empathy from the viewers and becomes a sanctuary in the daily lives of modern people.