'Watiting Person' is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. The artist gives his works a contemporary perspective by including young characters of comparable age, smoking cigarettes, or waiting for someone. His paintings make us aware of the future by focusing on the present, while at the same time displaying an uncertain future. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

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Waiting Person

'Outside the Event' is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. During the process, the narrative is erased, cropped, or partially enlarged, and the brushstrokes cover the canvas with unpredictable expressions. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

Outside the Event

This is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. During the process, the narrative is erased, cropped, or partially enlarged, and the brushstrokes cover the canvas with unpredictable expressions. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

 Walking on Stepping Stones

From the Event

This is a series of experimental paintings that merges the theme of concern with the expressive form of ambiguity, and by producing amplified, white flames in the contrast of light and darkness, as close-up through a lens. He combines the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

<Flame, Five Images> Series

'Jump' is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. During the process, the narrative is erased, cropped, or partially enlarged, and the brushstrokes cover the canvas with unpredictable expressions. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

Jump

Covered Face

Empty Seats, Standing Person

This is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. The artist gives his works a contemporary perspective by including young characters of comparable age, smoking cigarettes, or waiting for someone. His paintings make us aware of the future by focusing on the present, while at the same time displaying an uncertain future. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

Smoking Person 1

Fixed Moment 2

Drowning Face

'Stalled Walk' is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. In his recent paintings, the artist addresses feelings of anxiousness resulting from personal experiences and social events. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. During the process, the narrative is erased, cropped, or partially enlarged, and the brushstrokes cover the canvas with unpredictable expressions. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

Stalled Walk

Person Forced Out 2

'Walking a Dog 08' is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. With the form of a dog surrounded by either light or darkness, the artist obliterates the subject’s narrative and background from the canvas. A non-stationary entity that swiftly moves and shakes, leaving only the core human emotion of anxiety. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

Walking a Dog 08

This is one of a series of experimental paintings that combine the keywords ‘night landscape’ and ‘anxiety’ to discuss the uneasiness that comes with the decision to become an artist. With the form of a dog surrounded by either light or darkness, the artist obliterates the subject’s narrative and background from the canvas. A non-stationary entity that swiftly moves and shakes, leaving only the core human emotion of anxiety. His work is based on photography and includes realistic arrangements, figures, and light. With the recurrence of questionable decisions and erasures, the original context of the piece is removed, leaving it with an unclear unease. The artist draws attention to the existential concern that exists on the periphery of contemporary human society by intertwining the act of painting with images of insignificant habits of daily life that are caused by anxiety. 

 Walking a Dog 09

 M.F.A. Western Painting, Department of Fine Arts, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

B.F.A. Western Painting, Department of Painting, Gachon University, Gyeonggi, Korea

<Can we be a part of a painting?>, Finepaper Gallery, Seoul, Korea

<The boy in the last row>, Sungkyun Gallery, Seoul, Korea

<Asian Youth Art Festival>, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea

Kyukun Kang depicts the narrative in the uncertainty of daily life, which consists of light and darkness. After completing a bachelor's degree in Western painting at Gachon University and a master's degree in Western painting at Sungkyunkwan University, he has continued to draw unpredictable scenarios on canvas. His work, which reflects ordinary daily life and characters, includes clear contrary between light and shadow. Through an anxious, dreamy, and melancholy atmosphere, the artist takes the audience into their inherent stories. As a beginning point for his paintings he uses people's unstable features exposed to an unpredictable future, thereby inspiring people's imagination of events that would occur after the scene. 

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Kyukun KangSeoul, South Korea, b. 1990

Kyukun Kang
Seoul, South Korea, b. 1990