MINSEOKMinseok Kang · Contemporary Art
Minseok Kang
I place the car in front of me and speak. Competition and success, failure, rage, identity, dreams — in the place where form collapses and rises again on the canvas, there is the condensed true self that lives inside every one of us. My paintings do not console. And yet, for someone, they become strength.
Technique is made to seep into the painting. Pushing paint with a squeegee, I may at any moment pick up a brush, sew in thread, or attach an object — there are no rules about material. This is my official archive: the works, my notes, and the essay series ⟨Reading MINSEOK⟩ accumulate here.
Minseok Kang is a Korean contemporary painter based in Busan, South Korea, working with the automobile as a recurring motif to explore speed, time, competition and identity. He studied painting at Dong-A University and holds an MFA in Western Painting from the same university; he has exhibited in Busan and internationally since his first solo show in 2011.
Key Series
Spanning painting and sculpture, Minseok Kang's series trace the deconstruction and reassembly of the automobile, layers of time, and the marks left by paint — each recorded in its own visual language.
