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Kang, Chang Yeol
No.184_91x72.7cm
SPACE WOMb
2010. 5. 14(Fri) ▶ 2010. 5. 20(Thu)
2-48 Jackson Ave #1 Space Womb L.I.C., New York 11101
No.185_72.7x60.6cm
Art Vision of Kang, Chang-Yeol's
A long time, around 25 or 30 years ago, I committed "It is the orient that the arts are seriously and endlessly moving forward in." Seeing the unique art works created by Baik, Nam-Joon overwhelming the art world, you might, especially, as well think of Korea in orient.
Fascinated with oriental art, I happened, one day, to come across with an art work, which was so much unique that I couldn't define it as any genre in art. I felt thrilled to find out that the artist of the work was Kang, Chang-Yeol, Korean. His work is, of course, modernized. Then I found it rooted in Korean ancient spirit.
Rooted in the Korean spiritual and ornamental figures, the symbolic designs on the roof-tiles of palace, the flowers and the animals engraved on the historic memorial monuments, the scenes from shamanism (a type of ancient religion), stones and so on, his art had been originated.
Also, we can see all kinds of laws, in which his works were likely to be drafted by computer before they were moved onto canvas.
Reading the themes in his pictures, it is easy for you to find that his works seem to be the same as surrealists' like Dali or Max Ernst. However, even though the imagination in his works makes us feel queerly irrational and chaotic in the way of the formation, we also feel thrilled to see there are his superlative intellectual themes in his works and something specially harmonized beyond our expectation. Furthermore, we can't fail to notice that how many times a piece of subject in his work was repeatedly assembled, demolished and spiritually reassembled.
The spiritual esthetical matters found out in the history are assembled and re-emerged in his works. The three-dimensional universe of human, the history having been flowing with our lives, is turning into the four-dimensional universal thesis in his works, too.
In his works including spirits and dreams there is a window opened. Out of the window there is a world that seems to be touched but never to be allowed.
Like the words that can be affordable to be used only in poems, his works seem also affordable to be conversed only with poems in our lives.
The construction of his works with necessary ingredients is composed of mastered perspective. His pieces completed in that way permit us to savour of little by little like peeling off the layers in a poem.
An artist and poet, Kang, Chan-Yeol, whose undergoing his own unique fantasia might as well be called 'a monumental deed' paints the time flowing away, taking off the veils retreated in his memories, reemerging as a figure of his own dream and missing his childhood with all his heart.
The province of his fantasia is so superlative and unique that the root of Korean history is spiritually melted in his work, and compared to the ideology of NO-JA's, the artist's spiritual vision is being vividly reflected to us.
Roger Bouillot
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■ Kang, Chang Yeol
Degree and the college | Graduated from Han Yang University
Current Occupation capacity | Korea Fine Art Association international subcommittee chair man(2004 ~2006) | Korea Fine Art Association Western Art subcommittee chair man (2001 ~2003)
Exhibitions Attended | 30 Solo Exhibitions / FT.ART Gallery (L.A 2008) , Frederic Moisan Gallery (Paris 2008) | Over 400 group exhibitions-international and domestic | Karlsruhe Art Fair 2008,2009 | Art Fair 'Contemporary Istanbul’ 2007 | International Art Expo Malaysia (1th 2007 / 2th 2008) | 2th Beijing Biennale | 8th China Beijing Art Expo | 88 Olympic Seoul International Painting exhibition | MANIF Seoul International Art Fair | Seoul BangBub(Mathod) exhibition
Selected Award | 8th Beijing international Art Exposition – Gold Prize | Artist of Year Award – “Wolgan Korea Fine art Magazine” Award Foundation | Grand Prize Winner for “Nok Saik Art”(Environmental Art).
vol. 20100514 - Kang, Chang Yeol